Vulnerability in thrift (CVE-2026-43871)
Summary
Vulnerability in thrift (CVE-2026-43871). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 0.24.0 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in Apache Thrift Python, Go, PHP and Java bindings.This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.24.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.24.0, which fixes the issue.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-43871 has been found in thrift.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: upgrade thrift to 0.24.0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "thrift CVE-2026-43871" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-43871 (thrift) — CWE-835 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 0.24.0 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-835) exists in thrift.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of thrift.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 0.24.0.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'thrift' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'thrift' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
thriftを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade thrift to 0.24.0ステージング環境で 0.24.0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43871 libthrift-java
References
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web lists.apache.org
- web lists.apache.org
- web openwall.com
- web github.com