CVE-2024-31227

Denial-of-service due to malformed ACL selectors in Redis

Severity Score

4.4

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Track

*SSVC

Descriptions

Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. An authenticated with sufficient privileges may create a malformed ACL selector which, when accessed, triggers a server panic and subsequent denial of service. The problem exists in Redis 7 prior to versions 7.2.6 and 7.4.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

A flaw was found in Redis. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker with sufficient privileges to create a malformed ACL selector that triggers a server panic and subsequent denial of service when accessed.

This update for redis7 fixes the following issues. Fixed parsing issue leading to denail of service. Fixed unbounded recursive pattern matching. Fixed integer overflow bug in Lua bit_tohex.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Multiple

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Track

Exploitation

None

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Partial

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2024-03-29 CVE Reserved
2024-10-07 CVE Published
2024-10-07 CVE Updated
2025-07-24 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/b351d5a3210e61cc3b22ba38a723d6da8f3c298a	X_refsource_misc
https://github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-38p4-26x2-vqhh	X_refsource_confirm

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31227	2024-12-05
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317053	2024-12-05

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Redis Search vendor "Redis"		Redis Search vendor "Redis" for product "Redis"				>= 7.0.0 < 7.2.6 Search vendor "Redis" for product "Redis" and version " >= 7.0.0 < 7.2.6"		en		Affected
Redis Search vendor "Redis"		Redis Search vendor "Redis" for product "Redis"				>= 7.3.0 < 7.4.1 Search vendor "Redis" for product "Redis" and version " >= 7.3.0 < 7.4.1"		en		Affected