CVE-2024-31228
redis: Denial-of-service due to unbounded pattern matching in Redis
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · October 8, 2024
Updated · July 3, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in Redis. This flaw allows authenticated users to 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 crashes.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion