CVE-2026-63404Faktory: Insecure predictable /tmp/redis.conf enables local Redis config hijack (network exposure / root RCE primitive)

Faktory is a language-agnostic background job server. In versions prior to 1.10.0, the embedded Redis bootstrapper is vulnerable to an insecure temporary file flaw that lets a local unprivileged user hijack the Redis configuration and escalate to root. It writes its startup configuration to a fixed, predictable, world-writable path, /tmp/redis.conf, only creating the file if it does not already exist and never validating it on later boots. Because /tmp is world-writable, a local unprivileged user can pre-create /tmp/redis.conf with attacker-chosen Redis directives before Faktory starts, and Faktory will use the planted file verbatim. Faktory only overrides the unixsocket, dir, and logfile options, leaving directives such as bind, protected-mode, requirepass, and loadmodule attacker-controlled. This lets an attacker silently expose the entire job queue over an unauthenticated network port with no visible error to the administrator. Because the official systemd unit runs Faktory, and the redis-server child it spawns, as root, an attacker can also supply a loadmodule directive to execute arbitrary native code in the root-owned Redis process, escalating from a local unprivileged user to root. This issue is fixed in version 1.10.0.

CVSS

7.3 HIGH (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-377

Known exploited

Not in CISA's KEV catalog

EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)

Not loaded for this CVE

Assigned by

GitHub_M

NVD analysis

Deferred

Record last updated

Aug 28, 2026

First seen by InfoSec Signals

Oct 9, 2026

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