Redis Software release notes 7.8.4-18 (December 2024)

Certificate-based authentication for the REST API. Dry run option to validate Redis ACL REST API requests.

​​Redis Enterprise Software version 7.8.4 is now available! This release includes API enhancements that warranted a new minor version instead of a maintenance release for version 7.8.2. However, you can upgrade from 7.8.2 to 7.8.4 without issue.

Highlights

This version offers:

• Certificate-based authentication for the REST API

• Dry run option to validate Redis ACL REST API requests

New in this release

New features

• Certificate-based authentication for the REST API

  • Added support for certificate-based authentication to enable secure, passwordless access to the Redis Software REST API.

  • Certificate-based authentication can be used in addition to basic authentication with a username and password.

  • To set up certificate-based authentication, use REST API requests to do the following:

    1. Configure a trusted CA certificate mtls_trusted_ca using an update cluster certificate request:

       PUT /v1/cluster/update_cert
       {
         "name": "mtls_trusted_ca",
         "certificate": "<content of certificate PEM file>"
       }
       

    2. Update cluster settings with mutual TLS configuration:

       PUT /v1/cluster
       {
         "mtls_certificate_authentication": true,
         "mtls_client_cert_subject_validation_type": "san_cn",
         "mtls_authorized_subjects": [{
           "CN": "test",
           "OU": [],
           "O": "",
           "C": "",
           "L": "",
           "ST": ""
         }]
       }
       

    3. Include "auth_method": "certificate" and certificate_subject_line in the request body when you create new users or update existing users:

       POST /v1/users | PUT /v1/users/<user-id>
       {
         "auth_method": "certificate",
         "certificate_subject_line": "<subject of the user's client certificate>"
       }
       

  • Limitations:

    • Certificate-based authentication is not implemented for the Cluster Manager UI.

Enhancements

• If you create or update a Redis ACL using the REST API, you can use the dry_run query parameter to validate the request without actually applying the update.

  • Create Redis ACL example request:

    POST /v1/redis_acls?dry_run
    

  • Update Redis ACL example request:

    PUT /v1/redis_acls/<uid>?dry_run
    

Redis database versions

Redis Software version 7.8.4 includes three Redis database versions: 7.4, 7.2, and 6.2.

The default Redis database version is 7.4.

Redis module feature sets

Redis Software comes packaged with several modules. As of version 7.8.2, Redis Software includes three feature sets, compatible with different Redis database versions.

The following table shows which Redis modules are compatible with each Redis database version included in this release.

1. RedisGraph end-of-life has been announced and will be removed in a future release. See the RedisGraph end-of-life announcement for more details.

Resolved issues

• RS137337: Maintenance mode tasks are no longer incorrectly marked as aborted when the primary node is demoted.

• RS125921: Fixed a PDNS server script to ensure the symbolic links are not expanded.

• RS142457: Fixed an issue in the Cluster Manager UI where incorrect FQDN information was shown for Active-Active databases in Kubernetes.

• RS134410: Removed dependency test files that contain TLS keys from the Python install for Kubernetes.

• RS136270: Changed the owner and group of the rlec_supervisor.service file to root:root instead of redislabs:redislabs to improve security.

• RS142166: Fixed the representation of available RAM.

Version changes

Supported platforms

The following table provides a snapshot of supported platforms as of this Redis Software release. See the supported platforms reference for more details about operating system compatibility.

✅ Supported – The platform is supported for this version of Redis Software and Redis Stack modules.

⚠️ Deprecation warning – The platform is still supported for this version of Redis Software, but support will be removed in a future release.

1. The RHEL-compatible distributions CentOS, CentOS Stream, Alma, and Rocky are supported if they have full RHEL compatibility. Oracle Linux running the Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK) is supported, but the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) is not supported.

2. The server version of Ubuntu is recommended for production installations. The desktop version is only recommended for development deployments.

3. See the Redis Enterprise for Kubernetes documentation for details about support per version and Kubernetes distribution.

4. Docker images of Redis Software are certified for development and testing only.

5. Supported only if FIPS was enabled during RHEL installation to ensure FIPS compliance.

Downloads

The following table shows the SHA256 checksums for the available packages:

Known issues

• RS131972: Creating an ACL that contains a line break in the Cluster Manager UI can cause shard migration to fail due to ACL errors.

Known limitations

New Cluster Manager UI limitations

The following legacy UI features are not yet available in the new Cluster Manager UI:

• Purge an Active-Active instance.

  Use crdb-cli crdb purge-instance instead.

• Search and export the log.

RedisGraph prevents upgrade to RHEL 9

You cannot upgrade from a prior RHEL version to RHEL 9 if the Redis Software cluster contains a RedisGraph module, even if unused by any database. The RedisGraph module has reached End-of-Life and is completely unavailable in RHEL 9.

Query results might include hash keys with lazily expired fields

If one or more fields of a hash key expire after an FT.SEARCH or FT.AGGREGATE query begins, Redis does not account for these lazily expired fields. As a result, keys with expired fields might still be included in the query results, leading to potentially incorrect or inconsistent results.

Security

Open source Redis security fixes compatibility

As part of Redis's commitment to security, Redis Software implements the latest security fixes available with open source Redis. Redis Software has already included the fixes for the relevant CVEs.

Some CVEs announced for open source Redis do not affect Redis Software due to different or additional functionality available in Redis Software that is not available in open source Redis.

Redis Software 7.8.4-18 supports open source Redis 7.4, 7.2, and 6.2. Below is the list of open source Redis CVEs fixed by version.

Redis 7.2.x:

• (CVE-2024-31449) An authenticated user may use a specially crafted Lua script to trigger a stack buffer overflow in the bit library, which may potentially lead to remote code execution.

• (CVE-2024-31228) An authenticated user can trigger a denial-of-service by using specially crafted, long string match patterns on supported commands such as KEYS, SCAN, PSUBSCRIBE, FUNCTION LIST, COMMAND LIST, and ACL definitions. Matching of extremely long patterns may result in unbounded recursion, leading to stack overflow and process crashes.

• (CVE-2023-41056) In some cases, Redis may incorrectly handle resizing of memory buffers, which can result in incorrect accounting of buffer sizes and lead to heap overflow and potential remote code execution.

• (CVE-2023-41053) Redis does not correctly identify keys accessed by SORT_RO and, as a result, may grant users executing this command access to keys that are not explicitly authorized by the ACL configuration. (Redis 7.2.1)

Redis 7.0.x:

• (CVE-2024-31449) An authenticated user may use a specially crafted Lua script to trigger a stack buffer overflow in the bit library, which may potentially lead to remote code execution.

• (CVE-2024-31228) An authenticated user can trigger a denial-of-service by using specially crafted, long string match patterns on supported commands such as KEYS, SCAN, PSUBSCRIBE, FUNCTION LIST, COMMAND LIST, and ACL definitions. Matching of extremely long patterns may result in unbounded recursion, leading to stack overflow and process crashes.

• (CVE-2023-41056) In some cases, Redis may incorrectly handle resizing of memory buffers, which can result in incorrect accounting of buffer sizes and lead to heap overflow and potential remote code execution.

• (CVE-2023-41053) Redis does not correctly identify keys accessed by SORT_RO and, as a result, may grant users executing this command access to keys that are not explicitly authorized by the ACL configuration. (Redis 7.0.13)

• (CVE-2023-36824) Extracting key names from a command and a list of arguments may, in some cases, trigger a heap overflow and result in reading random heap memory, heap corruption, and potentially remote code execution. Specifically: using COMMAND GETKEYS* and validation of key names in ACL rules. (Redis 7.0.12)

• (CVE-2023-28856) Authenticated users can use the HINCRBYFLOAT command to create an invalid hash field that will crash Redis on access. (Redis 7.0.11)

• (CVE-2023-28425) Specially crafted MSETNX commands can lead to assertion and denial-of-service. (Redis 7.0.10)

• (CVE-2023-25155) Specially crafted SRANDMEMBER, ZRANDMEMBER, and HRANDFIELD commands can trigger an integer overflow, resulting in a runtime assertion and termination of the Redis server process. (Redis 7.0.9)

• (CVE-2023-22458) Integer overflow in the Redis HRANDFIELD and ZRANDMEMBER commands can lead to denial-of-service. (Redis 7.0.8)

• (CVE-2022-36021) String matching commands (like SCAN or KEYS) with a specially crafted pattern to trigger a denial-of-service attack on Redis can cause it to hang and consume 100% CPU time. (Redis 7.0.9)

• (CVE-2022-35977) Integer overflow in the Redis SETRANGE and SORT/SORT_RO commands can drive Redis to OOM panic. (Redis 7.0.8)

• (CVE-2022-35951) Executing an XAUTOCLAIM command on a stream key in a specific state, with a specially crafted COUNT argument, may cause an integer overflow, a subsequent heap overflow, and potentially lead to remote code execution. The problem affects Redis versions 7.0.0 or newer. (Redis 7.0.5)

• (CVE-2022-31144) A specially crafted XAUTOCLAIM command on a stream key in a specific state may result in heap overflow and potentially remote code execution. The problem affects Redis versions 7.0.0 or newer. (Redis 7.0.4)

• (CVE-2022-24834) A specially crafted Lua script executing in Redis can trigger a heap overflow in the cjson and cmsgpack libraries, and result in heap corruption and potentially remote code execution. The problem exists in all versions of Redis with Lua scripting support, starting from 2.6, and affects only authenticated and authorized users. (Redis 7.0.12)

• (CVE-2022-24736) An attacker attempting to load a specially crafted Lua script can cause NULL pointer dereference which will result in a crash of the redis-server process. This issue affects all versions of Redis. (Redis 7.0.0)

• (CVE-2022-24735) By exploiting weaknesses in the Lua script execution environment, an attacker with access to Redis can inject Lua code that will execute with the (potentially higher) privileges of another Redis user. (Redis 7.0.0)

Redis 6.2.x:

• (CVE-2024-31449) An authenticated user may use a specially crafted Lua script to trigger a stack buffer overflow in the bit library, which may potentially lead to remote code execution.

• (CVE-2024-31228) An authenticated user can trigger a denial-of-service by using specially crafted, long string match patterns on supported commands such as KEYS, SCAN, PSUBSCRIBE, FUNCTION LIST, COMMAND LIST, and ACL definitions. Matching of extremely long patterns may result in unbounded recursion, leading to stack overflow and process crashes.

• (CVE-2023-28856) Authenticated users can use the HINCRBYFLOAT command to create an invalid hash field that will crash Redis on access. (Redis 6.2.12)

• (CVE-2023-25155) Specially crafted SRANDMEMBER, ZRANDMEMBER, and HRANDFIELD commands can trigger an integer overflow, resulting in a runtime assertion and termination of the Redis server process. (Redis 6.2.11)

• (CVE-2023-22458) Integer overflow in the Redis HRANDFIELD and ZRANDMEMBER commands can lead to denial-of-service. (Redis 6.2.9)

• (CVE-2022-36021) String matching commands (like SCAN or KEYS) with a specially crafted pattern to trigger a denial-of-service attack on Redis can cause it to hang and consume 100% CPU time. (Redis 6.2.11)

• (CVE-2022-35977) Integer overflow in the Redis SETRANGE and SORT/SORT_RO commands can drive Redis to OOM panic. (Redis 6.2.9)

• (CVE-2022-24834) A specially crafted Lua script executing in Redis can trigger a heap overflow in the cjson and cmsgpack libraries, and result in heap corruption and potentially remote code execution. The problem exists in all versions of Redis with Lua scripting support, starting from 2.6, and affects only authenticated and authorized users. (Redis 6.2.13)

• (CVE-2022-24736) An attacker attempting to load a specially crafted Lua script can cause NULL pointer dereference which will result in a crash of the redis-server process. This issue affects all versions of Redis. (Redis 6.2.7)

• (CVE-2022-24735) By exploiting weaknesses in the Lua script execution environment, an attacker with access to Redis can inject Lua code that will execute with the (potentially higher) privileges of another Redis user. (Redis 6.2.7)

• (CVE-2021-41099) Integer to heap buffer overflow handling certain string commands and network payloads, when proto-max-bulk-len is manually configured to a non-default, very large value. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32762) Integer to heap buffer overflow issue in redis-cli and redis-sentinel parsing large multi-bulk replies on some older and less common platforms. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32761) An integer overflow bug in Redis version 2.2 or newer can be exploited using the BITFIELD command to corrupt the heap and potentially result with remote code execution. (Redis 6.2.5)

• (CVE-2021-32687) Integer to heap buffer overflow with intsets, when set-max-intset-entries is manually configured to a non-default, very large value. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32675) Denial Of Service when processing RESP request payloads with a large number of elements on many connections. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32672) Random heap reading issue with Lua Debugger. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32628) Integer to heap buffer overflow handling ziplist-encoded data types, when configuring a large, non-default value for hash-max-ziplist-entries, hash-max-ziplist-value, zset-max-ziplist-entries or zset-max-ziplist-value. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32627) Integer to heap buffer overflow issue with streams, when configuring a non-default, large value for proto-max-bulk-len and client-query-buffer-limit. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32626) Specially crafted Lua scripts may result with Heap buffer overflow. (Redis 6.2.6)

• (CVE-2021-32625) An integer overflow bug in Redis version 6.0 or newer can be exploited using the STRALGO LCS command to corrupt the heap and potentially result with remote code execution. This is a result of an incomplete fix by CVE-2021-29477. (Redis 6.2.4)

• (CVE-2021-29478) An integer overflow bug in Redis 6.2 could be exploited to corrupt the heap and potentially result with remote code execution. The vulnerability involves changing the default set-max-intset-entries configuration value, creating a large set key that consists of integer values and using the COPY command to duplicate it. The integer overflow bug exists in all versions of Redis starting with 2.6, where it could result with a corrupted RDB or DUMP payload, but not exploited through COPY (which did not exist before 6.2). (Redis 6.2.3)

• (CVE-2021-29477) An integer overflow bug in Redis version 6.0 or newer could be exploited using the STRALGO LCS command to corrupt the heap and potentially result in remote code execution. The integer overflow bug exists in all versions of Redis starting with 6.0. (Redis 6.2.3)