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High [CVE-2025-48431] Apache Thrift: Specially crafted input can crash a c_glib Thrift server with invalid pointer error.

This high-severity Apache Software Foundation advisory covers CVE-2025-48431 affecting Apache Thrift.

CVE-2025-48431 Published Apr 28, 2026Updated by vendor Aug 20, 2026

CVE-2025-48431

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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.

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

Affected versions

Apache Thrift before 0.23.0

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Fixed versions

0.23.0

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 1 month ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation

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

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 1 month ago·verify at source

Sources

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Independent discovery and scoring cross-reference. Vendor remediation guidance takes precedence. Discovered from the machine-readable feed https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0; this link opens the NVD record for CVE-2025-48431 instead of the raw feed document.
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