Withdrawn: this CVE is not a vulnerability
The assigning CNA withdrew CVE-2026-72568 on 17 August 2026, and it carries the Rejected state at CVE.org and NVD. It must not be treated as a live finding. Its pre-withdrawal severity, score and exploitability are withheld below; the record itself is kept because withdrawals are reversible and because the reject reason is the correction worth publishing.
CVE-2026-72568
Redis - Heap Out-of-Bounds Read in Cluster Bus PING Message Handler
Description
Rejected reason: Red Hat CNA-LR concluded that this CVE is not valid.
INFO
Published Date :
Aug. 10, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
Last Modified :
Aug. 17, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
Remotely Exploit :
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Source :
74b3a70d-cca6-4d34-9789-e83b222ae3be
CVSS Scores
| Score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS | 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 | |||||
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH | 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c | ||||
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH | MITRE-CVE |
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CVE Rejected by 74b3a70d-cca6-4d34-9789-e83b222ae3be
Aug. 17, 2026
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by 74b3a70d-cca6-4d34-9789-e83b222ae3be
Aug. 17, 2026
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Description An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Redis through 8.8.1 allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service or information disclosure by sending a specially crafted PING message to the Redis Cluster Bus port. Rejected reason: Red Hat CNA-LR concluded that this CVE is not valid. Removed CVSS V3.1 TuranSec: AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H Removed CWE TuranSec: CWE-125 Removed Reference TuranSec: https://github.com/redis/redis Removed Reference TuranSec: https://redis.io/ Removed Affected [{'vendor': 'Redis', 'product': 'Redis', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '0', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '8.8.1'}], 'defaultStatus': 'unknown'}] -
CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Aug. 10, 2026
Action Type Old Value New Value Added SSVC {'id': 'CVE-2026-72568', 'role': 'CISA Coordinator', 'options': [{'exploitation': 'none'}, {'automatable': 'no'}, {'technicalImpact': 'partial'}], 'version': '2.0.3', 'timestamp': '2026-08-10T13:08:35.897180Z'} -
CVE Modified by 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c
Aug. 10, 2026
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Affected [{'vendor': 'Redis', 'product': 'Redis', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '0', 'lessThan': '8.8.1', 'versionType': 'semver'}]}] [{'vendor': 'Redis', 'product': 'Redis', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '0', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '8.8.1'}], 'defaultStatus': 'unknown'}] Changed Description An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Redis through 8.8.1 allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service or information disclosure by sending a specially crafted PING message to the Redis Cluster Bus port. The getPingExtLength() function in the cluster bus message parser does not validate extension length fields against the actual remaining buffer size, allowing an attacker-controlled packet to cause the parser to read beyond the allocated buffer boundary. An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Redis through 8.8.1 allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service or information disclosure by sending a specially crafted PING message to the Redis Cluster Bus port. -
New CVE Received by 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c
Aug. 10, 2026
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Affected [{'vendor': 'Redis', 'product': 'Redis', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '0', 'lessThan': '8.8.1', 'versionType': 'semver'}]}] Added Description An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Redis through 8.8.1 allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service or information disclosure by sending a specially crafted PING message to the Redis Cluster Bus port. The getPingExtLength() function in the cluster bus message parser does not validate extension length fields against the actual remaining buffer size, allowing an attacker-controlled packet to cause the parser to read beyond the allocated buffer boundary. Added CVSS V3.1 AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H Added CWE CWE-125 Added Reference https://github.com/redis/redis Added Reference https://redis.io/