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Redis Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (GHSA-5453-q98w-cmvm)

🗓️ 28 May 2025 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AGType 
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Redis contains a buffer overflow vulnerability risking code execution; update to secure versions now.

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.154588");
  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:"2025-05-28 08:39:51 +0000 (Wed, 28 May 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/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:"2025-08-21 22:28:57 +0000 (Thu, 21 Aug 2025)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2025-27151");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("Redis Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (GHSA-5453-q98w-cmvm)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2025 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 stack-based buffer overflow
  vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A stack-based buffer overflow exists in redis-check-aof due to
  the use of memcpy with strlen(filepath) when copying a user-supplied file path into a fixed-size
  stack buffer. This allows an attacker to overflow the stack and potentially achieve code
  execution.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Redis version 7.x through 8.0.x.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 7.2.9, 7.4.4, 8.0.2 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-5453-q98w-cmvm");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/redis/redis/releases/tag/7.2.9");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/redis/redis/releases/tag/7.4.4");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/redis/redis/releases/tag/8.0.2");

  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_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "7.0", test_version_up: "7.2.9")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "7.2.9");
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "7.4", test_version_up: "7.4.4")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "7.4.4");
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "8.0", test_version_up: "8.0.2")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "8.0.2");
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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