Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-13949  

Applications using Thrift before version 0.14.0 would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious RPC clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

Applications using Thrift before version 0.14.0 would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious RPC clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service.

AVG-1568 thrift 0.13.0-1 0.14.0-1 Medium Testing

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/11/2