Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
redis/redis-py
master @ 83c2541
9
Fixes
2
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
0.0%
Coverage
Highlights
Denial of Service: 6 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
redis/asyncio/client.py: most-fixed (2 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
2 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Auth Bypass: Dirty connections returned to the connection pool without being disconnected can leak cached responses to subsequent requests from different users, leading to authentication bypass and data leakage. This is a critical state-isolation failure.
Denial of Service: Asynchronous pipelines are susceptible to connection leaks and subsequent pool exhaustion if cancellation occurs during reset operations. Ensuring robust cleanup using asyncio.shield prevents the event loop from leaving connections in an indeterminate state.
Denial of Service: Cancellation of distributed lock release routines can cause deadlocks if the local token is cleared while the remote lock key remains in Redis, leaving the lock permanently un-releasable.