Advisories

redis-parser through 3.0.0 Denial of Service via Unbounded Recursion

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severity
high
date
Affecting
  • redis-parser <= 3.0.0

CWE
  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
CVSS
8.7
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Wayde Shi (PayPal Cyber Security Team)
Description
redis-parser through 3.0.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the RESP protocol parser that allows malicious Redis endpoints to crash the client process through unbounded recursion on nested arrays. Attackers can send crafted RESP byte streams with repeated array headers that exhaust the V8 call stack, causing an uncaught RangeError that terminates the Node.js process without triggering error handling callbacks.

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