Apache Thrift: Node.js web_server.js multi-vulnerability
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass, Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · Low
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 9 fixed, 7 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-346 and CWE-400.
Summary
Origin Validation Error, Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'), Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting'), Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Thrift. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.23.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.23.0, which fixes the issue.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | Apache Thrift | before 0.23.0 | 0.23.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | thrift (npm) | up to 0.22.0 | — | No fix listed | GHSA-526f-jxpj-jmg2 |
- Apache Thrift VendorApache Affected before 0.23.0 Fixed in 0.23.0 Patch available CNA
- thrift (npm) Vendor— Affected up to 0.22.0 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-526f-jxpj-jmg2
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Apache Thrift (Apache Software Foundation) Fixed in 0.23.0
Red Hat 10 advisories
- RHSA-2026:60390 Released 2026-08-26 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes v2.13.11 security update
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-governance-policy-addon-controller-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-multicluster-observability-addon-rhel9 +23
- RHSA-2026:53530 Released 2026-08-11 · Red Hat rating CriticalMulticluster Global Hub 1.7.2 security update
- Multicluster Global Hub 1.7.4 registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-agent-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-manager-rhel9 +1
- RHSA-2026:53415 Released 2026-08-11 · Red Hat rating Importantopentelemetry-collector security update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6) opentelemetry-collector-0.152.1-1.el9_6
Show 7 more Red Hat advisories
- RHSA-2026:53412 Released 2026-08-11 · Red Hat rating Importantopentelemetry-collector security update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.4) opentelemetry-collector-0.152.1-1.el9_4
- RHSA-2026:53413 Released 2026-08-11 · Red Hat rating Importantopentelemetry-collector security update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0) opentelemetry-collector-0.152.1-1.el10_0
- RHSA-2026:47149 Released 2026-07-28 · Red Hat rating ImportantMulticluster Global Hub 1.7.2 security update
- Multicluster Global Hub 1.7.4 registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-agent-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-manager-rhel9 +1
- RHSA-2026:44622 Released 2026-07-23 · Red Hat rating ImportantMulticluster Global Hub 1.6.4 security update
- Multicluster Global Hub 1.6.6 registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-agent-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-manager-rhel9 +1
- RHSA-2026:42852 Released 2026-07-21 · Red Hat rating ImportantMulticluster Global Hub 1.5.6 security update
- Multicluster Global Hub 1.5.8 registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-agent-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-manager-rhel9 +1
- RHSA-2026:41030 Released 2026-07-16 · Red Hat rating ImportantMulticluster Global Hub 1.4.7 security update
- Multicluster Global Hub 1.4.9 registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-agent-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-manager-rhel9 +1
- RHSA-2026:36882 Released 2026-07-08 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes v2.14.3 security update
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-cli-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-governance-policy-addon-controller-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhacm2/acm-governance-policy-framework-addon-rhel9 +10
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Apache Thrift 0.23.0
3 records Highest priority Priority LOW 3 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-31933 Apache Thrift: TSSLTransportFactory.java hostname verificationPriority LOW 39
- TI-2026-31932 Apache Thrift: Rust implementation vulnerable to CVE-2020-13949 patternPriority LOW 31
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager - Tech Preview | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Multicluster Global Hub 1.4.9 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:41030 |
| Multicluster Global Hub 1.5.8 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:42852 |
| Multicluster Global Hub 1.6.6 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:44622 |
| Multicluster Global Hub 1.7.4 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:47149, RHSA-2026:53530 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:60390 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:36882 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.4) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:53412 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:53413 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6) | Fixed | RHSA-2026:53415 |
Not affected: 18 products
- Cryostat 4
- Multicluster Global Hub 1.4.9
- Multicluster Global Hub 1.5.8
- Multicluster Global Hub 1.6.6
- Multicluster Global Hub 1.7.4
- OpenShift Service Mesh 2
- Red Hat AI Inference Server
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14
- Red Hat Data Grid 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Fuse 7
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
- Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0
- Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-43870
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-526f-jxpj-jmg2
- 2026-11-06 Fix available: Multicluster Global Hub 1.7.4 · Red Hat
References
Advisory 3
More Apache Thrift vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-40373 Apache Thrift: C++ ZLIB heap buffer overflow (write) in THeaderTransport::untransform() CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2016-04675 Command injection in Apache Thrift CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-42227 Apache Thrift: C++ THeaderTransport::readString() info-header length bounds bypass CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-42014 Apache Thrift: Rust binary protocol non-strict path missing string size limit CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-40371 Integer overflow in Apache Thrift CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-40370 Apache Thrift: Node.js quadratic-time DoS in server receive transports CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2026-43870 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-43870 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-526f-jxpj-jmg2 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-43870 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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