Reachable Assertion in Redis - CVE-2021-31294

 

Reachable Assertion in Redis - CVE-2021-31294

Published: December 15, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU84474
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-31294
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to Redis allows a replica to cause an assertion failure in a primary server. A remote attacker can send a non-administrative command (specifically, a SET command) to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Redis
Guardium Data Security Center (GDSC)
watsonx Code Assistant On Prem
Maximo Application Suite - Visual Inspection Component
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

How to mitigate CVE-2021-31294

Install updates from vendor's website.

Redis - update to 6.2.0
Guardium Data Security Center (GDSC) - update to 3.8.8
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.3.1
watsonx Code Assistant On Prem - update to 5.3.1
Maximo Application Suite - Visual Inspection Component - update to 9.1.18
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace - update to 2.0.91

External References

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