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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache Thrift

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 12, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.thrift:libthrift (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 0.9.3, < 0.14.0

Patched versions

0.14.0

Description

In Apache Thrift 0.9.3 to 0.13.0, malicious RPC clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 12, 2021
Reviewed Mar 12, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 12, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-13949

GHSA ID

GHSA-g2fg-mr77-6vrm

Source code

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