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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-11939

As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.56%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.56%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Golang Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Facebook Thrift prior to v2020.03.16.00.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.56% probability · 74th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-770
Affected
facebook/thrift
Source
cve-assign@fb.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.