Apache Thrift: C++ THttpTransport grows its line buffer without bound
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Code execution, Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 14 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-122, CWE-770 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling, Integer overflow or wraparound, Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Apache Thrift. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, which fixes the issue.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Apache Thrift (Apache Software Foundation) Fixed in 0.25.0
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Advisory ·
Apache Thrift — lists.apache.org/thread/33otcgbqd27wf6qq810q56znzbomnhg1
61 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 31 MEDIUM, 30 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-65915 Apache Thrift: PHP `thrift_protocol` accelerator: zero-byte container elementsPriority MEDIUM 45
- TI-2026-65974 Apache Thrift: Ruby `SimpleServer` ends `serve()` on any non-Transport/Protocol exceptionPriority MEDIUM 44
- TI-2026-65968 Apache Thrift: Lua `TFramedTransport`/`THttpTransport` re-slice the buffer on every read (quadratic)Priority MEDIUM 44
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Ansible Automation Orchestrator 2026 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Cryostat 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | — |
| Multicluster Global Hub | Affected | — |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 | Affected | — |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 6 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| 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 | — |
| Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3 | Affected | — |
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat AI Inference Server
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-83632
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-ffqv-2x6m-g28r
- 2026-10-04 Priority changed: LOW → MEDIUM
- 2026-10-10 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-10 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-10-12 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-13 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-15 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-27 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
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- TI-2024-26062 Apache OFBiz: Unauthenticated endpoint could allow execution of screen rendering code KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-21190 Apache OFBiz: Path traversal leading to RCE KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-18186 Apache HugeGraph-Server: Command execution in gremlin KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-25106 Deserialization of untrusted data in Apache ActiveMQ KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
Sources
- CVE-2026-83632 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-83632 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-ffqv-2x6m-g28r · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-83632 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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