CVE-2025-21605 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Redis
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.5%
top 18.56%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 23
Description
Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. In versions starting at 2.6 and prior to 7.4.3, An unauthenticated client can cause unlimited growth of output buffers, until the server runs out of memory or is killed. By default, the Redis configuration does not limit the output buffer of normal clients (see client-output-buffer-limit). Therefore, the output buffer can grow unlimitedly over time. As a result, the service is exhausted and the memory is unavailable. When passwor…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages12 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0
🔴Vulnerability Details
1📋Vendor Advisories
3Red Hat▶
redis: Redis DoS Vulnerability due to unlimited growth of output buffers abused by unauthenticated client↗2025-04-23
Microsoft▶
Redis DoS Vulnerability due to unlimited growth of output buffers abused by unauthenticated client↗2025-04-08
Debian▶
CVE-2025-21605: redict - Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. In versions s...↗2025