Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-3559 - 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
Java Facebook Thrift servers 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
- https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/commit/a56346ceacad28bf470017a6bda1d5518d0bd943
- https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/commit/a56346ceacad28bf470017a6bda1d5518d0bd943
- 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
- https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3559
- https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3559