Redis <= 4.0.2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
🗓️ 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in Redis shipped with IBM Cloud Schematics (CVE-2017-15047) | 17 Jun 201822:33 | – | ibm | |
| The vulnerability of the clusterLoadConfig function in the Redis database management system allows a attacker to cause service interruptions or other adverse effects. | 23 Nov 201700:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| Redis cluster.c clusterLoadConfig data index out-of-bounds vulnerability | 9 Oct 201700:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2017-15047 | 6 Oct 201704:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2017-15047 | 6 Oct 201704:00 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2017-15047 | 6 Oct 201704:00 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2017-6522 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| GLSA-202008-17 : Redis: Multiple vulnerabilities | 28 Aug 202000:00 | – | nessus | |
| openSUSE Security Update : redis (openSUSE-2018-93) | 26 Jan 201800:00 | – | nessus | |
| Pivotal Software Redis 2.0.x < 3.2.12 / 4.0.x < 4.0.3 DoS | 24 Apr 201800:00 | – | nessus |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| github | www.github.com/antirez/redis/issues/4278 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:redis:redis";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113011");
script_version("2025-10-10T05:39:02+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-10-10 05:39:02 +0000 (Fri, 10 Oct 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-10-10 14:58:31 +0200 (Tue, 10 Oct 2017)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-08-28 02:15:00 +0000 (Fri, 28 Aug 2020)");
# There exists a backport of the vulnerable version for Debian Stretch
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-15047");
script_name("Redis <= 4.0.2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Databases");
script_dependencies("gb_redis_tcp_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("redis/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Redis is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The clusterLoadConfig function within /redis/src/cluster.c
allows for a buffer overflow vulnerability leading from an array index being set from
user-controllable input.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"A successful exploitation would allow the attacker to corrupt the
host's memory or even execute arbitrary commands on the host.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Redis version 4.0.2 and prior.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 4.0.3 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/4278");
exit(0);
}
include( "host_details.inc" );
include( "version_func.inc" );
if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe: CPE ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! version = get_app_version( cpe: CPE, port: port ) )
exit( 0 );
if( version_is_less_equal( version: version, test_version: "4.0.2" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "4.0.3" );
security_message( port: port, data: report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
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