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Redis Sandbox Escape (CVE-2022-0543)
cve-2022 | Level: Easy | Total Lab Runs: 0 | Premium Lab |
In February 2022, a critical vulnerability in a popular persistent key-value store, Redis, was reported. It was discovered that Redis is prone to a (Debian-specific) Lua sandbox escape due to a packaging issue, which could result in remote code execution.
An important point to note is that this issue only applies to Debian and Debian-derived Linux distributions. Upstream Redis is not affected. That makes it a Debian vulnerability, not a Redis one. The root cause of the issue is dynamic linking, detailed in a post written by the researcher who discovered this vulnerability.
This vulnerability received the CVE id of CVE-2022-0543. Debian also released the DSA-5081 security advisory on 18 February 2022, and Ubuntu released USN-5316-1 on 7 March 2022.
In this lab environment, the user will get access to an Ubuntu CLI instance. The provided Ubuntu instance has a vulnerable version of Redis.
Objective: Exploit the local Lua sandbox escape vulnerability in the Redis server to gain root access and retrieve the flag!
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