CVE-2026-45112 Apache Thrift: Unbounded Read Leading to Denial of Service

What is CVE-2026-45112?

CVE-2026-45112 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Thrift, published on 27 Jul 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache Thrift Java bindings.

This issue affects Apache Thrift: from 0.19.0 before 0.24.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.24.0, which fixes the issue.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-45112?

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

Products include Apache Thrift.

How do I fix CVE-2026-45112?

Upgrade thrift to 0.24.0 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2026-45112 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-45112 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 BIT-thrift-2026-45112, CLEANSTART-2026-DN30065, CLEANSTART-2026-QF48371, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-45112, GHSA-g9fj-fh28-776p, MINI-c889-qvgr-g62x and 1 more.