CVE-2019-0210 — thrift
HIGHCVE-2019-0210 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in github.com/apache/thrift. A fix is available for github.com/apache/thrift — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Out-of-bounds read in Apache Thrift
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2019-0210 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,333 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
github.com/apache/thriftReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Go packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
In Apache Thrift 0.9.3 to 0.12.0, a server implemented in Go using TJSONProtocol or TSimpleJSONProtocol may panic when feed with invalid input data.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | github.com/apache/thrift | ≥ 0.9.3&&< 0.13.0 | 0.13.0go get github.com/apache/thrift@v0.13.0 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for github.com/apache/thrift, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update github.com/apache/thrift to 0.13.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2019-0210 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2019-0210 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2019-0210. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform ships OpenDaylight, which contains a vulnerable version of libthrift. However, OpenDaylight is not affected as this is a Golang specific problem, lowering the impact of the vulnerability for OpenDaylight. As such, Red Hat will not be providing a fix for OpenDaylight at this time. The version…
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| EAP-CD 19 Tech Preview | libthrift | RHSA-2020:2333 |
| Red Hat Data Grid 7.3.6 | libthrift | RHSA-2020:2321 |
| Red Hat Fuse 7.8.0 | libthrift | RHSA-2020:5568 |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 | libthrift | RHSA-2020:2515 |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 | libthrift | RHSA-2020:0811 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 | libthrift | RHSA-2020:0961 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for RHEL 6 | eap7-activemq-artemis-0:2.9.0-2.redhat_00009.1.el6eap | RHSA-2020:0804 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for RHEL 7 | eap7-activemq-artemis-0:2.9.0-2.redhat_00009.1.el7eap | RHSA-2020:0805 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2019-0210 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2019-0210 across Go dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.