CVE-2019-11939 — Golang Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring

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 i

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Facebook	Facebook Thrift	v2020.03.16.00, unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-03-18T00:40:12.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:10:29.633Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/commit/483ed864d69f307e9e3b9dadec048216100c…
• www.facebook.com — https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11939