What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-12453

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 23.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-06-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-704

Description

Type confusion in the xgroupCommand function in t_stream.c in redis-server in Redis before 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause denial-of-service via an XGROUP command in which the key is not a stream.

Affected products

• Redis Labs Redis: before 5.0 — fixed in 5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Redis Labs Redis 5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gist.github.com/fakhrizulkifli/34a56d575030682f6c564553c53b82b5
• https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/c04082cf138f1f51cedf05ee9ad36fb6763cafc6
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44908/
• https://gist.github.com/fakhrizulkifli/34a56d575030682f6c564553c53b82b5
• https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/c04082cf138f1f51cedf05ee9ad36fb6763cafc6
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44908/

Get alerted when CVE-2018-12453 or the next vulnerability affects your stack