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CVE-2018-12453

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-12453 is a type confusion vulnerability affecting Redis versions prior to 5.0. It allows remote attackers to trigger a denial-of-service condition by sending a specially crafted XGROUP command where the key is not a stream. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating it can be exploited over the network with low complexity, leading to high availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild, a public exploit (EDB-44908) exists, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redislabs:redis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
24.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-44908 · Jun 20, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2418 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-12453Moderate

redis: type confusion in the xgroupCommand function in t_stream.c

Jun 10, 2018

References

gist.github.com / fakhrizulkifli/34a56d575030682f6c564553c53b82b5
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / antirez/redis/commit/c04082cf138f1f51cedf05ee9ad36fb6763cafc6
PatchThird Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/44908
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry