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high 7.5

CVE-2018-1320 json

Improper Input Validation in Apache Thrift

published 7y ago modified last mo. also GHSA-wjxj-f8rg-99wx , EUVD-2019-0196

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.2%
EPSS 8.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Apache Thrift Java client library versions 0.5.0 through 0.11.0 can bypass SASL negotiation isComplete validation in the org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslTransport class. An assert used to determine if the SASL handshake had successfully completed could be disabled in production settings making the validation incomplete.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.thrift:libthrift 0.9.3-1, 0.12.0
  • oracle global_lifecycle_management_opatch 11.2.0.3.23, 12.2.0.1.19, 13.9.4.2.1
  • oracle nosql_database 19.3.12
  • libthrift-java Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.9.1-2.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1320

  • libthrift-java Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.9.1-2.1~build0.16.04.1
  • libthrift-java Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.9.1-2.1~build0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1320

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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red hat product security vex CVE-2018-1320 updated cvss 6.5

thrift: SASL negotiation isComplete validation bypass in the org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslTransport class

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 libthrift Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 thrift Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes libthrift
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) opendaylight
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky) opendaylight
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.4.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:2413
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 libthrift Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Continuous Delivery libthrift Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 libthrift Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 fb303, thrift, thrift-qt, fb303-java, perl-thrift, thrift-glib, +4 more Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 fb303, thrift, thrift-qt, fb303-java, perl-thrift, thrift-glib, +4 more
    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

8.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.thrift:libthrift
>=0.5.0, <0.9.3-1
>=0.10.0, <0.12.0
0.9.3-1
0.12.0

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Thrift

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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