CVE-2023-28856`HINCRBYFLOAT` can be used to crash a redis-server process
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 1.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 30% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. Authenticated users can use the `HINCRBYFLOAT` command to create an invalid hash field that will crash Redis on access in affected versions. This issue has been addressed in in versions 7.0.11, 6.2.12, and 6.0.19. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 25 days later
· 25 days later
Published
- 22 months later
· 22 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
References
References8
- https://github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-hjv8-vjf6-wcr6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/11149 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/bc7fe41e5857a0854d524e2a63a028e9394d2a5c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00023.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OQGKMKSQE67L32HE6W5EI2I2YKW5VWHI/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LPUTH7NBQTZDVJWFNUD24ZCS6NDUFYS6/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EQ4DJSO4DMR55AWK6OPVJH5UTEB35R2Z/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230601-0007/ (opens in a new tab)x_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-2023-32480 (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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