CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-21468

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.15%

63th percentile - higher than 63% of all known CVEs

Summary

A segmentation fault in the redis-server component of Redis 5.0.7 leads to a denial of service (DOS). The vendor cannot reproduce this issue in a released version, such as 5.0.7.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the Redis server, causing disruption of services that depend on the database.

Recommendation

It is recommended to monitor Redis security updates and consider implementing temporary mitigations, such as restricting access to the Redis server to trusted hosts only.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A segmentation fault in the redis-server component of Redis 5.0.7 leads to a denial of service (DOS). NOTE: the vendor cannot reproduce this issue in a released version, such as 5.0.7.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS