PT-2019-16608 · Facebook · Facebook Thrift

Yanshuchong · Published 2019-05-06 · Updated 2021-10-29 · CVE-2019-3559

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Facebook Thrift versions prior to 2019.02.18.00

Description The issue allows malicious clients to send short messages that take a long time for the server to parse, potentially leading to denial of service. This occurs because Java Facebook Thrift servers do not error when receiving messages with containers of fields of unknown type.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2019.02.18.00, update to version 2019.02.18.00 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-834

CWE-755

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-3559

Affected Products

Facebook Thrift

References · 8

• https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/commit/a56346ceacad28bf470017a6bda1d5518d0bd943 · Patch
• https://facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3559 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-3559 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-3559 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3559 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3559 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3559 · Security Note
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E · Note