CVE-2026-23479
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
1.5%
73.2th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-416
Published 2026-05-05 · modified 2026-07-25
Description
Redis is an in-memory data structure store. In redis-server from 7.2.0 until 8.6.3, the unblock client flow does not handle an error return from `processCommandAndResetClient` when re-executing a blocked command. If a blocked client is evicted during this flow, an authenticated attacker can trigger a use-after-free that may lead to remote code execution. This has been patched in version 8.6.3.
Affected
References
- https://github.com/redis/redis/releases/tag/8.6.3
- https://github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-93m2-935m-8rj3
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14316
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25216
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25219
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25925
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26306
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26540
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7662
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23479
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2466780
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-23479.json