7.5highHigh
CVE-2025-48431
Apache Thrift
Mismatched Memory Management Routines vulnerability in Apache Thrift c_glib language bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.23.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.23.0, which fixes the issue. Description: Specially crafted requests can crash an c_glib-based Thrift server with a clean but fatal "free(): invalid pointer" error message.
Exploitation status
- A vendor advisory or patch reference has been published.
What the metrics mean
- It is reachable over a network, without needing local access.
- For an attacker who can reach it, no special conditions are needed to exploit it.
- To exploit it, no account is needed.
- Beyond that, no action by a user is required.
Scoring
- CVSS
- 7.5 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-762
- Assigned by
- security@apache.org
Dates
- Published
- 2026-04-28
- Last modified
- 2026-08-26
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Apache Thrift- 0.23.0
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/lb4j0zyd5f3g36cos0wql925przpnwql
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/28/8
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24539
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25273
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27126
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28010
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36882
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-48431
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2463410
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-48431.json