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

What is CVE-2025-48431?

CVE-2025-48431 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Thrift, published on 28 Apr 2026.

Official description

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.

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

Weakness: CWE-763, CWE-762

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-48431?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including thrift. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Thrift.

How do I fix CVE-2025-48431?

Upgrade thrift to 0.23.0 or later.

Is CVE-2025-48431 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48431 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Thrift

• CVE-2026-55971 Apache Thrift: C++ ZLIB heap buffer overflow (write) in THeaderTransport::untransform() Critical 9.3
• CVE-2026-48144 Apache Thrift: c_glib TLS Client Missing Hostname Verification Critical 9.1
• CVE-2016-5397 Apache Thrift Go Library Command Injection High 8.8
• CVE-2026-43871 Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift: TCompactProtocol varint byte-count limit High 8.7
• CVE-2026-48586 Denial of service in Apache Thrift High 8.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as AZL-85014, BIT-thrift-2025-48431, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-48431, ECHO-d017-aa78-89cb, GHSA-ppv5-592p-g5q4, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-48431.