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CVE-2025-48431 json

Apache Thrift: Specially crafted input can crash a c_glib Thrift server with invalid pointer error.

published 6mo ago modified last mo. also BIT-thrift-2025-48431 , EUVD-2025-209581

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mismatched Memory Management Routines vulnerability in Apache Thrift c_glib language bindings.

This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.23.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.23.0, which fixes the issue.

Description: Specially crafted requests can crash an c_glib-based Thrift server with a clean but fatal "free(): invalid pointer" error message.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami thrift 0.23.0
  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Thrift 0.23.0
  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9 4.2.0-16
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 1782693386
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 1780677003
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16 1780926805
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.2 1781589494
  • thrift Debian 14 0.23.0-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-48431

  • thrift Alpine 3.24 0.23.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-48431

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • thrift Azure Linux 3.0 0.15.0-6

azure linux advisories AZL-85014

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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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-2025-48431 updated cvss 7.5

Apache Thrift: c_glib: Apache Thrift c_glib: Denial of Service via specially crafted requests

  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 redhat-user-workloads/crt-redhat-acm-tenant/grafana-acm-213, redhat-user-workloads/crt-redhat-acm-tenant/release-acm-212/grafana-acm-212
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat AI Inference Server rhaiis/vllm-cpu-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-tpu-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 rhceph/snmp-notifier-rhel8 Red Hat Ceph Storage 6 rhceph/snmp-notifier-rhel9, rhceph/rhceph-6-dashboard-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 rhceph/grafana-rhel9, rhceph/snmp-notifier-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 rhceph/alloy-rhel10, rhceph/grafana-rhel10, rhceph/snmp-notifier-rhel10
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/cnf-tests-rhel8, openshift4/ztp-site-generate-rhel8, redhat-user-workloads/telco-5g-tenant/cnf-tests-4-15, redhat-user-workloads/telco-5g-tenant/ztp-site-generate-4-15, redhat-user-workloads/telco-5g-tenant/ztp-site-generate-4-16
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3 rhosdt/tempo-query-rhel9, rhosdt/tempo-jaeger-query-rhel9, rhosdt/opentelemetry-collector-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9 cryostat/cryostat-storage-rhel9 4.2.0-16
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:28010
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9 1782693386
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:36882
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9 1780677003
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:24539
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  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16 rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9 1780926805
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:25273
  • Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1 rhosdt/tempo-rhel9 1781589494
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:27126
  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9 cryostat/cryostat-rhel9 4.2.0-10, cryostat/cryostat-db-rhel9 4.2.0-16, cryostat/jfr-datasource-rhel9 4.2.0-10, cryostat/cryostat-reports-rhel9 4.2.0-10, cryostat/cryostat-operator-bundle 4.2.0-8, cryostat/cryostat-rhel9-operator 4.2.0-15, +3 more Red Hat Multicluster Global Hub multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/istio-rhel8-operator
    not affected: vulnerable code not in execute path
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 rhacm2/thanos-rhel9 1783122371, rhacm2/acm-cli-rhel9 1783350872, rhacm2/console-rhel9 1783451729, rhacm2/prometheus-rhel9 1783259161, rhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9 1783381100, rhacm2/node-exporter-rhel9 1783327463, +37 more Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 rhacm2/thanos-rhel9 1780908155, rhacm2/acm-cli-rhel9 1780415683, rhacm2/console-rhel9 1780876734, rhacm2/prometheus-rhel9 1780906025, rhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9 1780877544, rhacm2/node-exporter-rhel9 1780876985, +39 more Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16 rhacm2/thanos-rhel9 1780931547, rhacm2/acm-cli-rhel9 1781100469, rhacm2/console-rhel9 1780600823, rhacm2/prometheus-rhel9 1780931508, rhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9 1780066324, rhacm2/node-exporter-rhel9 1780877735, +40 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 grafana, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, grafana-mysql, grafana-selinux, grafana-graphite, +8 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-model-registry-rhel9
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/oc-mirror-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1 rhosdt/tempo-query-rhel9 1781587690, rhosdt/tempo-gateway-rhel9 1781589515, rhosdt/tempo-rhel9-operator 1781589394, rhosdt/tempo-operator-bundle 1781591522, rhosdt/tempo-gateway-opa-rhel9 1781589512, rhosdt/tempo-jaeger-query-rhel9 1781589458
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 rhoso-operators/openstack-operator-bundle
    not affected: vulnerable code not in execute path

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
6mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami thrift
<0.23.0
0.23.0

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Thrift
  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.2
  • Red Hat Multicluster Global Hub
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 5
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-762 Mismatched Memory Management Routines
  • CWE-763 Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

References

Sources

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