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Red Hat Security Advisory: valkey security update

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Published: 11/24/2025 (11/24/2025, 02:05:30 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Valkey is an advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string; incrementing the value in a hash; pushing to a list; computing set intersection, union and difference; or getting the member with highest ranking in a sorted set. In order to achieve its outstanding performance, Valkey works with an in-memory dataset. Depending on your use case, you can persist it either by dumping the dataset to disk every once in a while, or by appending each command to a log. Valkey also supports trivial-to-setup master-slave replication, with very fast non-blocking first synchronization, auto-reconnection on net split and so forth. Other features include Transactions, Pub/Sub, Lua scripting, Keys with a limited time-to-live, and configuration settings to make Valkey behave like a cache. You can use Valkey from most programming languages also. Security Fix(es): * redis: Lua library commands may lead to integer overflow and potential RCE (CVE-2025-46817) * Redis: Redis: Authenticated users can execute LUA scripts as a different user (CVE-2025-46818) * Redis: Redis is vulnerable to DoS via specially crafted LUA scripts (CVE-2025-46819) * Redis: Redis Lua Use-After-Free may lead to remote code execution (CVE-2025-49844) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected software

redhat/valkey
pkg:rpm/redhat/valkey
Affected versions
=8.0.6-2.el9_7

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AI-Powered Analysis

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AILast updated: 07/12/2026, 10:58:07 UTC

Technical Analysis

Valkey, a data structure server supporting atomic operations and LUA scripting, has multiple vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-46817 involves integer overflow in LUA library commands potentially leading to remote code execution; CVE-2025-46818 allows authenticated users to execute LUA scripts as different users; CVE-2025-46819 enables denial of service via specially crafted LUA scripts; and CVE-2025-49844 is a LUA use-after-free vulnerability that may lead to remote code execution. These vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 packages of Valkey. Red Hat Product Security has released an update (valkey-8.0.6-2.el9_7) to remediate these issues.

Potential Impact

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely, escalate privileges by running LUA scripts as different users, or cause denial of service conditions. The integer overflow and use-after-free vulnerabilities specifically may lead to remote code execution, posing a high security risk. The denial of service vulnerability could disrupt service availability. These issues affect systems running vulnerable versions of Valkey on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released an official security update for Valkey (version 8.0.6-2.el9_7) that addresses all identified vulnerabilities. Users should apply this update promptly to remediate the security issues. Detailed update instructions are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigations are specified by the vendor beyond applying the update.

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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-2025:21916
Cve Count
4
Additional Cves
["CVE-2025-46818","CVE-2025-46819","CVE-2025-49844"]

Threat ID: 6a419caa27e9c79719ab896f

Added to database: 06/28/2026, 22:14:02 UTC

Last enriched: 07/12/2026, 10:58:07 UTC

Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:50 UTC

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