Security Features in Redis - CVE-2016-10517
Published: October 24, 2017 / Updated: July 18, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31401
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10517
CWE-ID: CWE-254
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
networking.c in Redis before 3.2.7 allows "Cross Protocol Scripting" because it lacks a check for POST and Host: strings, which are not valid in the Redis protocol (but commonly occur when an attack triggers an HTTP request to the Redis TCP port).
Affected software
Redis
How to mitigate CVE-2016-10517
Install update from vendor's website.
Redis - update to 3.2.7