CVE-2018-11218
Memory Corruption was discovered in the cmsgpack library in the Lua subsystem in Redis before 3.2.12, 4.x before 4.0.10, and 5.x before…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 58.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Memory Corruption was discovered in the cmsgpack library in the Lua subsystem in Redis before 3.2.12, 4.x before 4.0.10, and 5.x before 5.0 RC2 because of stack-based buffer overflows.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- Redis Replication Code Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/redis/redis_replication_cmd_execRank gooddisclosed 13 Nov 2018
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 32 days later
· 32 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 58.8% · top 0.9% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
13
- 104553 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/5017 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-4230 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:0052 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/5ccb6f7a791bf3490357b00a898885759d98bab0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://antirez.com/news/119 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/52a00201fca331217c3b4b8b634f6a0f57d6b7d3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:0094 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/redis/4.0/00-RELEASENOTES (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/redis/5.0/00-RELEASENOTES (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1860 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201908-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-3258 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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