Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessReach network-exposed Thrift Ruby endpoint
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ExploitSend malformed protocol message
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ExecutionTrigger uncaught exception in bindings
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ImpactCrash service and deny availability
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A10:2025 - Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions
ASVS 5.0
V16 - Security Logging and Error Handling Exception handling completeness
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires a service that uses the Apache Thrift Ruby bindings (version before 0.25.0) to expose a network-reachable Thrift RPC endpoint that processes attacker-supplied protocol messages. Per the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N), no authentication, no user interaction, and no special configuration are needed - any reachable Thrift Ruby service parsing untrusted input is exposed. The primary limiting factor is deployment scope: only services specifically built on the Ruby language bindings are affected (not Thrift bindings for other languages), and impact is limited to availability (service crash/DoS) with no data exposure or code execution. Upgrading to 0.25.0 removes the condition. |
| Impact | This is a denial-of-service vulnerability (CWE-248 Uncaught Exception / Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions) in the Apache Thrift Ruby bindings. The vendor-supplied CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H) tells a consistent story: network-reachable, low complexity, no privileges or user interaction, with impact confined entirely to availability (VA:H) and zero confidentiality or integrity impact (VC:N/VI:N). The 8.7 score is driven solely by easy, unauthenticated remote triggering of a crash, not by data exposure or code execution. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or public POC was provided in the intelligence, so there is no evidence of active exploitation or weaponization - this appears to be a real but availability-only priority rather than a critical compromise vector. Importantly, the 'Information Disclosure' tag in the input directly CONFLICTS with the CVSS vector, which shows VC:N (no confidentiality impact); the vector indicates this is a DoS, not an information-disclosure flaw, and the tag should be treated as mislabeled. Priority should be scaled to how exposed the Thrift Ruby service endpoints are and whether availability of those RPC services is business-critical. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker sends a malformed or crafted Thrift protocol message to a network-exposed service built on the Apache Thrift Ruby bindings. The library fails to properly handle the exceptional condition, raising an uncaught exception that terminates the handler or process, denying service to legitimate clients. No public exploit code was identified in the provided intelligence, and no authentication is required (PR:N). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 02, 2026
Uncaught exception handling in the Apache Thrift Ruby bindings lets unauthenticated remote attackers crash network-reachable Thrift RPC services running any version before 0.25.0. Per the assessed vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N), no credentials, user interaction, or special configuration are required: any reachable Thrift Ruby service that parses attacker-supplied protocol messages can be knocked offline, though impact is limited to availability with no confidentiality or integrity loss. The flaw carries a CVSS 4.0 score of 8.7 (High) and an assessed CVSS 3.1 of 7.5, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis; exposure is confined to deployments using the Ruby language bindings rather than Thrift bindings for other languages.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade the Apache Thrift Ruby bindings to 0.25.0, the version Apache names as the fix (https://lists.apache.org/thread/33otcgbqd27wf6qq810q56znzbomnhg1 and https://lists.apache.org/thread/k1t5r9sz7k5tn57cnf5khw2ywlxv6098); update the thrift gem version pin in the Gemfile or gemspec and redeploy, since the vulnerable code lives in the Ruby library itself rather than in generated service stubs. If upgrading must be deferred, restrict network reachability of Thrift RPC endpoints to trusted clients via firewall rules or mutual TLS, at the cost of breaking legitimate public or partner-facing access; place a reverse proxy in front of the endpoint to rate-limit connections and blunt repeated crash attempts, recognizing that a single crafted message can still terminate the worker; and run the Ruby Thrift server under a supervisor such as systemd, a Kubernetes restart policy, or a process manager so that crashes are automatically recovered, accepting brief availability gaps after each crash. Short of patching, disabling or removing the affected Ruby RPC service entirely is the only control that fully removes the exposure.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The defect is classified as CWE-248 (Uncaught Exception) and stems from improper handling of exceptional conditions inside the Apache Thrift Ruby language bindings. Thrift is a cross-language RPC framework in which a transport layer and a wire protocol (binary, compact, or JSON) decode incoming bytes before dispatching them to generated Ruby service processors; when a malformed or unexpected message raises an exception that the Ruby server loop does not catch, the exception escapes the request-handling path and terminates the serving process instead of being converted into a Thrift application-level error returned to the caller. The CPE entry cpe:2.3:a:apache_software_foundation:apache_thrift:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* combined with the vendor's statement that the issue affects versions before 0.25.0 indicates the flawed code path is present across all prior releases, but only services built on the Ruby bindings - not the Java, Python, C++, Go, or other language libraries - are reachable by the vulnerable code path. Version 0.25.0 contains the hardened exception handling that contains such conditions rather than letting them kill the server.
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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, unauthenticated, low-complexity triggering of an uncaught exception causing a crash; availability-only impact (A:H) with no confidentiality or integrity effect.
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorVendor: apache
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2DescriptionCVE.org
Uncaught exception, Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Apache Thrift Ruby 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
A high-severity flaw in Apache Thrift Ruby bindings allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash network-reachable RPC services, threatening availability for any internal or customer-facing application that relies on these bindings. No public exploit has been identified at the time of analysis, but with no vendor-released patch currently available, leadership should prioritize reducing exposure and safeguarding service uptime while awaiting remediation.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: restrict network reachability to trusted sources, segment Thrift Ruby RPC services behind firewalls or API gateways, enforce rate limiting and malformed-message detection, monitor for crashes and restarts, and disable or migrate from Ruby bindings where feasible.
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