High severity8.4OSV Advisory· Published Jun 17, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-12326

Description

Buffer overflow in redis-cli of Redis before 4.0.10 and 5.x before 5.0 RC3 allows an attacker to achieve code execution and escalate to higher privileges via a crafted command line. NOTE: It is unclear whether there are any common situations in which redis-cli is used with, for example, a -h (aka hostname) argument from an untrusted source.

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Affected products

Antirez/RedisOSV
Range: 1.3.6, 2.2-alpha0, 2.2-alpha1, …
Redis/Redis4 versions
cpe:2.3:a:redislabs:redis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:a:redislabs:redis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <4.0.10
- cpe:2.3:a:redislabs:redis:5.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:redislabs:redis:5.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <4.0.10, <5.0 RC3

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References

github.com/antirez/redis/commit/9fdcc15962f9ff4baebe6fdd947816f43f730d50nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/redis/4.0/00-RELEASENOTESnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/redis/5.0/00-RELEASENOTESnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44904/nvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
gist.github.com/fakhrizulkifli/f831f40ec6cde4f744c552503d8698f0nvdThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0052nvd
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0094nvd
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1860nvd

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