High
Security advisory
Node-redis is a Node.js Redis client. Before version 3.1.1, when a client is in monitoring mode, the regex begin used to detected monitor messages could cause exponential backtracking on some strings. This issue could lead to a denial of service. The issue is patched in version 3.1.1.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-29469
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Node-redis is a Node.js Redis client. Before version 3.1.1, when a client is in monitoring mode, the regex begin used to detected monitor messages could cause exponential backtracking on some strings. This issue could lead to a denial of service. The issue is patched in version 3.1.1.
osv:CVE-2021-29469
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-04-23T18:15:08.303+00:00"
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