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Reachable Assertion

CVE-2023-28856

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

Summary

Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. Authenticated users can use the `HINCRBYFLOAT` command to create an invalid hash field that will crash Redis on access in affected versions. This vulnerability affects redis package versions through 6.0.18, 6.2-rc1 through 6.2.11, 7.0-rc1 through 7.0.10. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion

The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published