CVE-2019-11939

high

Description

Golang 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 v2020.03.16.00.

References

https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11939

https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/commit/483ed864d69f307e9e3b9dadec048216100c0757

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-03-18

Updated: 2020-03-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00539