CVE-2018-11218
Memory Corruption was discovered in the cmsgpack library in the Lua subsystem in Redis before 3.2.12, 4.x before 4.0.10, and 5.x before 5.0 RC2 because of stack-based buffer overflows.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 58.8%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Memory Corruption was discovered in the cmsgpack library in the Lua subsystem in Redis before 3.2.12, 4.x before 4.0.10, and 5.x before 5.0 RC2 because of stack-based buffer overflows.
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 58.83% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- redislabs/redis · debian/debian linux · oracle/communications operations monitor · redhat/openstack
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 73.7% on 21 September 2026 to 58.8% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- http://antirez.com/news/119Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104553Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0052Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0094Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1860
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/52a00201fca331217c3b4b8b634f6a0f57d6b7d3Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/5ccb6f7a791bf3490357b00a898885759d98bab0Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/5017Third Party Advisory
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/redis/4.0/00-RELEASENOTESThird Party Advisory
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/redis/5.0/00-RELEASENOTESThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-04
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4230Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://antirez.com/news/119Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104553Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0052Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0094Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1860
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/52a00201fca331217c3b4b8b634f6a0f57d6b7d3Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/5ccb6f7a791bf3490357b00a898885759d98bab0Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/5017Third Party Advisory
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/redis/4.0/00-RELEASENOTESThird Party Advisory
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/redis/5.0/00-RELEASENOTESThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-04
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4230Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.