CVE-2017-15047

Publication date 6 October 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The clusterLoadConfig function in cluster.c in Redis 4.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array index and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging "limited access to the machine."

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
redis	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:3.0.6-1ubuntu0.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

leosilva

code not present in trusty

msalvatore

"All versions since 2.6.0-rc1 affected" ~ lamby Oct 9, 2017 Dispite this, the cluster.c file does not exist in trusty, nor does the function clusterLoadConfig().

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H