CVE-2016-10517

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-254 Security Features

Publication date:

24/10/2017

Last modified:

20/04/2025

Description

networking.c in Redis before 3.2.7 allows "Cross Protocol Scripting" because it lacks a check for POST and Host: strings, which are not valid in the Redis protocol (but commonly occur when an attack triggers an HTTP request to the Redis TCP port).

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.40 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

7.40

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None