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Redis Unauthenticated Access Detection (C)

redis-unauthenticated-c is a critical severity check in the databases category, written in c. Its source is templates/databases/redis/redis-unauthenticated.c in cert-x-gen-templates.

Detects Redis instances exposed without authentication using C

Field Value
Id redis-unauthenticated-c
Severity critical
Language c
Category databases
Author CERT-X-GEN Security Team
Template version 1.0.0
Confidence 95
CVSS 9.8
Weakness CWE-306
Tags redis, unauthenticated, database, nosql, cwe-306
Target kind not recorded
Oracle not recorded

Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a template cites are surfaced.

To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:

Terminal window
cxg template info redis-unauthenticated-c

The id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See cxg template for the rest of the subcommand, Scan a target for running a scan, and A match is not a finding for how to read what comes back.