PT-2020-9226 · Facebook · Facebook Thrift

Published 2020-03-10 · Updated 2020-03-11 · CVE-2019-11938

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 2019.12.09.00

Description The issue allows malicious clients to send short messages that could result in large memory allocations, potentially leading to denial of service. This occurs because Java Facebook Thrift servers do not error when receiving messages with declared container sizes larger than the payload.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2019.12.09.00, update to version 2019.12.09.00 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-770

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-11938

Affected Products

Facebook Thrift

References · 5

• https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/commit/08c2d412adb214c40bb03be7587057b25d053030 · Patch
• https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/commit/71c97ffdcb61cccf1f8267774e873e21ebd3ebd3 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11938 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-11938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11938 · Vendor Advisory