CVE-2025-48431CWE-762CWE-763

CVE-2025-48431

High · published April 28, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
62.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01079 · 62.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-762 · Mismatched Memory Management Routines; CWE-763 · Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference
Published
2026-04-28T14:16Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
apache/thrift< 0.23.00.23.0
References (10)
https://lists.apache.org/thread/lb4j0zyd5f3g36cos0wql925przpnwql · [email protected]http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/28/8 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24539 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25273 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27126 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28010 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36882 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-48431 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2463410 · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-48431.json · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 APR 09:11Z
    Apache Thrift: Specially crafted input can crash a c_glib Thrift server with invalid pointer error.
    cvelistv5