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CVE-2015-3254 json

The client libraries in Apache Thrift before 0.9.3 might allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion)…

published 2017-06-16 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-3307

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.3%
EPSS 5.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The client libraries in Apache Thrift before 0.9.3 might allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via vectors involving the skip function.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-3254 updated cvss 6.5

thrift: Infinite recursion via vectors involving the skip function

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 thrift
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 libthrift
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 libthrift
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3115
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2477
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3115
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 libthrift
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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