CVE-2025-48431 (GCVE-0-2025-48431)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-28 09:11 – Updated: 2026-04-28 13:55
VLAI
Title
Apache Thrift: Specially crafted input can crash a c_glib Thrift server with invalid pointer error.
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-762 - Mismatched Memory Management Routines
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache Thrift Affected: 0 , < 0.23.0 (semver)
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Credits
Hasnain Lakhani Hasnain Lakhani
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