Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 7, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025
Denial-of-service due to unbounded pattern matching in Redis
CVE-2024-31228
Description
Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. Authenticated users can trigger a denial-of-service by using specially crafted, long string match patterns on supported commands such as KEYS, SCAN, PSUBSCRIBE, FUNCTION LIST, COMMAND LIST and ACL definitions. Matching of extremely long patterns may result in unbounded recursion, leading to stack overflow and process crash. This problem has been fixed in Redis versions 6.2.16, 7.2.6, and 7.4.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
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Affected products
51- osv-coords49 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/py3.10-redispkg:apk/chainguard/py3.11-redispkg:apk/chainguard/py3.12-redispkg:apk/chainguard/py3.13-redispkg:apk/chainguard/py3-redispkg:apk/chainguard/redis-6.2pkg:apk/chainguard/redis-6.2-bitnami-compatpkg:apk/chainguard/redis-7.2pkg:apk/chainguard/redis-7.2-iamguarded-compatpkg:apk/chainguard/redis-7.4pkg:apk/chainguard/redis-benchmark-6.2pkg:apk/chainguard/redis-benchmark-7.2pkg:apk/chainguard/redis-cli-6.2pkg:apk/chainguard/redis-cli-7.2pkg:apk/chainguard/redis-cluster-6.2-bitnami-compatpkg:apk/chainguard/redis-cluster-7.2-iamguarded-compatpkg:apk/chainguard/redis-sentinel-6.2-bitnami-compatpkg:apk/chainguard/redis-sentinel-7.2-iamguarded-compatpkg:apk/wolfi/redis-6.2pkg:apk/wolfi/redis-7.2pkg:apk/wolfi/redis-7.4pkg:apk/wolfi/redis-benchmark-7.2pkg:apk/wolfi/redis-cli-7.2pkg:bitnami/keydbpkg:bitnami/redispkg:bitnami/valkeypkg:rpm/almalinux/redispkg:rpm/almalinux/redis-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/redis-docpkg:rpm/opensuse/redis7&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/redis7&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/redis&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/redis&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/redis&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/valkey&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/redis7&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/redis7&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/redis&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.3
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- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.16-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.16-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.6-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.12-r2
- (no CPE)range: < 7.4.1-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.16-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.12-r2
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.16-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.12-r2
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.16-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.12-r2
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.16-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.12-r2
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.16-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.6-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 7.4.1-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.12-r2
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.12-r2
- (no CPE)range: >= 2.2.5, < 6.3.4
- (no CPE)range: >= 2.2.5, < 6.2.16
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.7
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.6-1.module_el9.5.0+130+36ae7635
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.6-1.module_el9.5.0+130+36ae7635
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.6-1.module_el9.5.0+130+36ae7635
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.8-150500.3.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.8-150600.8.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.6-150400.3.28.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.8-150500.3.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.8-150600.8.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.0.14-150200.6.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.0.14-150200.6.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.6-150400.3.28.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.4-150600.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.0.14-150200.6.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.6-150400.3.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.0.14-150200.6.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.6-150400.3.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.6-150400.3.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.6-150400.3.28.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- github.com/redis/redis/commit/9317bf64659b33166a943ec03d5d9b954e86afb0mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-66gq-c942-6976mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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