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Red Hat Security Advisory: valkey security update

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Published: Thu Feb 26 2026 (02/26/2026, 15:21:30 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Two security vulnerabilities have been identified in Valkey, an advanced key-value store used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. The first vulnerability (CVE-2025-67733) involves improper handling of null characters in Lua scripts, which can lead to data tampering and denial of service. The second vulnerability (CVE-2026-21863) allows denial of service via invalid clusterbus packets. Red Hat has issued an important security update addressing these issues in Valkey version 8. 0. 7-1. el10_1. The update is available for multiple architectures and variants of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Users are advised to apply the update as detailed in the Red Hat advisory. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.

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AILast updated: 05/26/2026, 23:20:50 UTC

Technical Analysis

Valkey is a high-performance in-memory key-value store supporting complex data types and atomic operations, with features including Lua scripting and master-slave replication. Two vulnerabilities have been fixed in Valkey: CVE-2025-67733, which allows data tampering and denial of service due to improper null character handling in Lua scripts, and CVE-2026-21863, which causes denial of service through invalid clusterbus packets. These issues affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related packages. Red Hat Product Security has released an update (valkey-8.0.7-1.el10_1) to address these vulnerabilities. The advisory classifies the impact as Important, and users should refer to the official Red Hat errata RHSA-2026:3443 for update instructions.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities can lead to data tampering and denial of service conditions in Valkey deployments. Specifically, improper null character handling in Lua scripts may allow manipulation of data or service disruption, while malformed clusterbus packets can cause denial of service. These impacts affect the integrity and availability of services relying on Valkey. No evidence of active exploitation has been reported.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released an official security update for Valkey (version 8.0.7-1.el10_1) that addresses these vulnerabilities. Users running affected versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 should apply this update promptly following Red Hat's guidance at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Since this is an on-premises product, remediation requires manual patching. There are no vendor statements indicating that no action is required or that the issue is already mitigated without patching.

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Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Csaf Category
csaf_security_advisory
Csaf Version
2.0
Publisher
Red Hat Product Security
Advisory Id
RHSA-2026:3443
Cve Count
2
Additional Cves
["CVE-2026-21863"]
Cvss Version
null

Threat ID: 6a160977e29bf47b50643bd8

Added to database: 5/26/2026, 8:58:31 PM

Last enriched: 5/26/2026, 11:20:50 PM

Last updated: 5/27/2026, 5:03:45 AM

Views: 2

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