Service interruption via unterminated Compact Protocol varints
Published Jul 27, 2026 · Updated Jul 27, 2026
Resource exhaustion in Apache Thrift Java bindings 0.19.0 through 0.23.0 allows remote attackers to hold processing threads via crafted varints. The TCompactProtocol readVarint32 and readVarint64 loops keep reading continuation bytes without enforcing their five- and ten-byte maximums. Any network-facing Java client or server that decodes Compact Protocol input is exposed; repeated unterminated values can exhaust worker threads and interrupt service, without reported data access or modification.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in Apache Thrift Java bindings 0.19.0 through 0.23.0 allows remote attackers to hold processing threads via crafted varints. The TCompactProtocol readVarint32 and readVarint64 loops keep reading continuation bytes without enforcing their five- and ten-byte maximums. Any network-facing Java client or server that decodes Compact Protocol input is exposed; repeated unterminated values can exhaust worker threads and interrupt service, without reported data access or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-45112
- Published
- Jul 27, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 27, 2026
- Vendor
- The Apache Software Foundation
- Product
- Apache Thrift
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 27, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 27, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0.19.0 <0.24.0
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