Apache Thrift 0.23+ Mismatched Memory Mgmt Routines Vulnerability
CVE-2025-48431 Published on April 28, 2026

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

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-48431 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Types

Mismatched Memory Management Routines

The application attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls a release function that is not compatible with the function that was originally used to allocate that resource.

Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

The application attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but calls the wrong release function or calls the appropriate release function incorrectly.


Products Associated with CVE-2025-48431

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Apache Thrift
 
Red Hat Cryostat
 
Red Hat Acm
 
Red Hat Openshift Distributed Tracing
 
Red Hat Ai Inference Server
 
Red Hat Ceph Storage
 
Red Hat Openshift
 
Red Hat Multicluster Globalhub
 
Red Hat Service Mesh
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
 
Red Hat Openshift Ai
 
Red Hat Openstack
 

Affected Versions

Apache Software Foundation Apache Thrift: Red Hat Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1: Red Hat Multicluster Global Hub: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2: Red Hat AI Inference Server: Red Hat AI Inference Server: Red Hat Ceph Storage 5: Red Hat Ceph Storage 6: Red Hat Ceph Storage 6: Red Hat Ceph Storage 8: Red Hat Ceph Storage 8: Red Hat Ceph Storage 9: Red Hat Ceph Storage 9: Red Hat Ceph Storage 9: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI): Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
1.05%
Percentile
60.17%

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