CVE-2019-11938 Information

Description

Java Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Facebook Thrift prior to v2019.12.09.00.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/commit/08c2d412adb214c40bb03be7587057b25d053030 https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/commit/71c97ffdcb61cccf1f8267774e873e21ebd3ebd3 https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11938

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5