Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. A vulnerability involving out-of-bounds read and integer overflow to buffer overflow exists starting with version 2.2 and prior to versions 5.0.13, 6.0.15, and 6.2.5. On 32-bit systems, Redis *BIT* command are vulnerable to integer overflow that can potentially be exploited to corrupt the heap, leak arbitrary heap contents or trigger remote code execution. The vulnerability involves changing the default proto-max-bulk-len configuration parameter to a very large value and constructing specially crafted commands bit commands. This problem only affects Redis on 32-bit platforms, or compiled as a 32-bit binary. Redis versions 5.0.3m 6.0.15, and 6.2.5 contain patches for this issue. An additional workaround to mitigate the problem without patching the redis-server executable is to prevent users from modifying the proto-max-bulk-len` configuration parameter. This can be done using ACL to restrict unprivileged users from using the CONFIG SET command.
CVE-2021-32761
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 7.7 because EPSS predicted 37% probability of exploitation within the next 30 days (98th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs) when EchelonGraph scored this CVE. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5 retained for reference. Confidence: see factors.
Also known asEUVD-2021-19529 (ENISA EUVD)Source: ENISA EUVD
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.7HIGHhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 50EG Risk 50/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity75% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 37%
- EPSS %ILE
- 98th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.7): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.7 is EPSS's lift toward 9.0 from its impact severity (EG Severity, CVSS 7.5 HIGH): a likelihood of exploitation, not impact.
- EG Severity
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 37% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
July 21, 2021
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (7)
Auto-updated Oct 16, 2026[SECURITY] [DLA 2717-1] redis security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00017.htmlInteger overflow issues with BITFIELD command on 32-bit systems · Advisory · redis/redis · GitHub
https://github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-8wxq-j7rp-g8wjRedis: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202209-17) — Gentoo security
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-17[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: redis-6.2.5-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VGX7RRAWGXWXEAKJTQYSDSBO2BC3SAHD/[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: redis-6.0.15-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6O7AUOROBYGP5IMGJPC5HZ3R2RB6GZ5X/[SECURITY] [DLA 2717-2] redis security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/08/msg00026.htmlVendor Advisories for CVE-2021-32761(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | redis-sentinel (2:3.0.6-1ubuntu0.4+esm1) @ xenial | 2026-10-20 | ubuntu |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(14 across 14 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| redis | — |
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Alpine:v3.12(1)
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| redis | — |
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Alpine:v3.13(1)
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| redis | — |
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Alpine:v3.14(1)
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| redis | — |
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Alpine:v3.15(1)
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| redis | — |
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Alpine:v3.16(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| redis | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.17(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| redis | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.18(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| redis | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.19(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| redis | — |
| — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| redis | — |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| redis | — |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| redis | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| redis | — |
| — |
Debian:9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| redis | 3:3.2.6-1 ... 3:3.2.6-3+deb9u5 (8 versions) |
| — |
Weakness Classification(3)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(1)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 46× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 94 of 199 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 6 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 105 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-02 06:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-02 06:02 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 37% · 98th percentile
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- 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEG score recompute▲ 0.20
- 2026-10-26 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 37% · 98th percentile
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- 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEG score recompute▼ 0.20
- 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 30% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEG score recompute▲ 0.20
- 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 37% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-19 16:39 UTCEG score recompute▼ 0.20
- 2026-10-19 16:39 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 30% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-18 16:38 UTCEG score recompute▲ 0.20
- 2026-10-18 16:38 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 37% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-18 09:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 16:32 UTCEG score recompute▼ 0.20
- 2026-10-17 16:32 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 30% · 98th percentile
- 2026-10-16 18:19 UTCEG score recompute▲ 0.20
- 2026-10-16 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
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- 2026-09-30 15:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 15:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 31% · 98th percentile
- 2026-09-27 13:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 31% · 98th percentile
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- 2026-09-25 21:45 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-09-24 14:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
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- 2026-09-06 13:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 31% · 98th percentile
- 2026-09-06 12:00 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-09-05 15:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 31% · 98th percentile
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- 2026-08-19 22:45 UTCOSV refresh
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