Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-3552 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Facebook Thrift
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
C++ Facebook Thrift servers (using cpp2) would not error upon receiving messages with containers of fields of unknown type. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would take a long time for the server to parse, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Facebook Thrift prior to v2019.02.18.00.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108279
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108279
- https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/commit/c5d6e07588cd03061bc54d451a7fa6e84883d62b
- https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/commit/c5d6e07588cd03061bc54d451a7fa6e84883d62b
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E