Attack ChainAIDerived
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AccessReach Dart Thrift endpoint over network
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ExploitSend message with oversized length field
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ExecutionParser allocates excessive memory from length
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ImpactMemory exhaustion crashes service (DoS)
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Memory allocation limits
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires a service that uses the Apache Thrift Dart bindings (version before 0.25.0) to deserialize attacker-supplied Thrift messages reachable over the network; the attacker must be able to send a message whose length/size parameter is set to an excessive value. No authentication or user interaction is required (PR:N/UI:N). The practical limiting factor is scope: only deployments using the Dart bindings specifically are affected, and impact is limited to availability (service crash/hang) - there is no data exposure or code execution. |
| Impact | The only severity signal available is the vendor-supplied CVSS 4.0 vector (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N, score 8.7), which describes a remotely reachable, unauthenticated, low-complexity flaw whose ONLY impact is availability (VA:H); confidentiality and integrity are explicitly N. This is consistent with CWE-789 (Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value): an attacker-controlled length field drives an oversized allocation, exhausting memory and causing denial of service. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV entry, and no public exploit code are present in the input, so there is no evidence of active or imminent exploitation. Note a conflict: the 'Information Disclosure' tag contradicts the CVSS vector (VC:N means no confidentiality impact) - this is a DoS/availability issue, not disclosure, and the tag appears mislabeled. Net: a genuine, easily-triggered DoS in a specific language binding, but the availability-only impact and absence of exploitation signals place it below memory-corruption/RCE-class priorities. Prioritize patching where Dart Thrift services parse untrusted input. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker sends a crafted Thrift message to a service built on the Apache Thrift Dart bindings, setting a length/size field to an excessively large value. The Dart parser allocates memory based on that unvalidated length, exhausting available memory and crashing or hanging the service (denial of service). No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and no authentication is required. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 02, 2026
Denial of service in Apache Thrift's Dart bindings (all versions before 0.25.0) lets an unauthenticated remote attacker crash or hang a service by sending a Thrift message whose length or size field declares an excessive allocation. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N, VA:H, score 8.7) confirms the flaw is remotely reachable without authentication or user interaction, but impact is confined to availability - confidentiality and integrity are explicitly rated N, with no data exposure or code execution described in any source. Only deployments that deserialize attacker-supplied Thrift traffic through the Dart bindings are affected, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade to Apache Thrift 0.25.0, which is the fixed release named in the Apache advisories (https://lists.apache.org/thread/33otcgbqd27wf6qq810q56znzbomnhg1 and https://lists.apache.org/thread/cxkbblyht7988p2o6yvnmd6536qmt88k). Where an immediate upgrade is not possible, the most effective compensating control is to bound the input before it reaches the Dart bindings: place a fronting proxy or gateway that enforces a hard maximum request/frame size and rejects oversized or truncated Thrift payloads, which neutralizes the excessive-allocation path at the cost of dropping legitimate large messages, so the limit must be chosen against the largest expected payload. Additionally, cap process memory with container limits or ulimit/RLIMIT_AS so an excessive allocation fails the request rather than the host - this does not prevent the per-request crash but contains blast radius and protects co-located workloads. Restrict the Thrift listener to trusted networks or mTLS-authenticated peers if the Dart service is not meant to be internet-facing, accepting the loss of open access, and consider terminating Thrift in a non-Dart binding (for example a Go or Java front end) where the deployment permits, since those code paths are unaffected. Monitor and restart Dart isolates to recover availability after any suspected attempt.
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Apache Thrift is a cross-language RPC and serialization framework in which a common IDL generates bindings for many runtimes, and each binding independently implements the binary/compact protocol decoders. The Dart binding accepts attacker-controlled length prefixes and size fields from the wire before validating them against the remaining buffer; the core weakness is CWE-789 (Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value), compounded by the length-parameter inconsistency noted in the vendor description. Rather than pre-validating the declared size against bytes actually received and against a configurable maximum frame size, the decoder attempts an allocation sized by the untrusted value, so a small crafted message can force an oversized heap allocation that exhausts memory in the Dart VM and terminates or stalls the isolate. The vendor CPE (cpe:2.3:a:apache_software_foundation:apache_thrift:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) and the "before 0.25.0" statement indicate the flaw is common to all pre-0.25.0 releases, but the exploitable surface is the Dart bindings specifically - servers using the Java, C++, Python, or Go bindings are not exposed through this code path. Both the vendor CVSS 4.0 vector and the independent CVSS 3.1 assessment (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U and A:H alone) agree that the outcome is purely an availability loss, with no memory-corruption, disclosure, or traversal primitive implied.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Remote, low-complexity, unauthenticated message triggers oversized allocation; impact is availability-only DoS, so C:N/I:N/A:H.
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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2DescriptionCVE.org
Memory allocation with excessive size value, Improper handling of length parameter inconsistency vulnerability in Apache Thrift Dart bindings.
This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, which fixes the issue.
Executive ViewAI
Apache Thrift services that use the Dart bindings (all releases prior to 0.25.0) can be remotely crashed or hung by an unauthenticated attacker sending a single Thrift message with an oversized length field. The impact is confined to availability - the CVSS 4.0 vector rates confidentiality and integrity as none, with no data exposure or code execution described - but any customer-facing or internal service that deserializes untrusted Thrift traffic through Dart is exposed to repeated, low-effort disruption requiring no credentials or user interaction. Leadership should care because availability loss in these services translates directly into customer-facing outages, and no vendor-released patch was identified at time of analysis.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: enforce maximum message and request body sizes at the reverse proxy/load balancer and within the Thrift server configuration where supported; apply connection, request-rate, and concurrency limits to Dart-binding endpoints; isolate affected services in tightly bounded containers or VMs with hard CPU/memory quotas and automated restart/watchdog policies so a crashed or hung process is recovered quickly; restrict network reachability to trusted clients only; and monitor for the vendor-released Dart binding version (0.25.0 or later) as the definitive fix.
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