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CVE-2015-3254

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The client libraries in Apache Thrift before 0.9.3 might allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via vectors involving the skip function.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache Thrift: through 0.9.2

References

• http://grokbase.com/t/thrift/user/15c2tss3td/notice-apache-thrift-security-vulnerability-cve-2015-1774
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99112
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2477
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3115
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-3231
• https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/thrift-user/201512.mbox/%3CCANyrgvcjvEcjTVmaL+tVXCBm4o5G+1neu=MUubD9GbU85bO_Ew%40mail.gmail.com%3E
• http://grokbase.com/t/thrift/user/15c2tss3td/notice-apache-thrift-security-vulnerability-cve-2015-1774
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99112
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2477
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3115
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-3231
• https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/thrift-user/201512.mbox/%3CCANyrgvcjvEcjTVmaL+tVXCBm4o5G+1neu=MUubD9GbU85bO_Ew%40mail.gmail.com%3E

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