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high 7.4

CVE-2016-10517 json

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 val…

published 2017-10-24 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1698

cvss
7.4
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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).

Patch / fix

  • redislabs redis 3.2.7
  • redis Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3:3.2.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10517

  • redis Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2:2.8.4-2ubuntu0.2
  • redis Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2:3.0.6-1ubuntu0.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10517

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • redis SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 6.0.8-1.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-OU-2020:3291-1

  • redis openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.2.5-1.2
  • redis Package Hub 12 4.0.2-9.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11299-1openSUSE-SU-2017:2984-1openSUSE-SU-2017:2994-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-10517 updated cvss 5.3

redis: cross-protocol attack using malicious HTTP request

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) redis Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) redis Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) Operational Tools redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational Tools redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) redis
    +3 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational Tools redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) redis Red Hat Software Collections rh-redis32-redis
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata) redis Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) redis
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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