Two security advisories have been released to address two vulnerabilities in Redis. Redis is a popular in-memory key-value database that persists on disk.
CVE-2024-46981 is a ‘use after free’ vulnerability with a CVSSv3 score of 7.0. If exploited, an authenticated attacker could use a specially crafted Lua script to achieve remote code execution. CVE-2024-51741 is an ‘improper input validation’ vulnerability with a CVSSv3 score of 4.4.
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