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CVE-2019-11939

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-11939 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Golang Facebook Thrift servers prior to version 2020.03.16.00. Malicious clients could send short messages that declare oversized containers, leading to excessive memory allocation and potential server crashes. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-exploitable attack with low complexity and high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2020.03.16.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:facebook:thrift:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0152 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/facebook/fbthriftFixed in: 0.31.1-0.20200311080807-483ed864d69f

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-w3r9-r9w7-8h48high

Golang Facebook Thrift servers vulnerable to denial of service

May 24, 2022
redhatCVE-2019-11939Moderate

thrift: Resource exhaustion via containers sizes messages

Mar 18, 2020

References

github.com / facebook/fbthrift/commit/483ed864d69f307e9e3b9dadec048216100c0757
PatchThird Party Advisory
facebook.com / security/advisories/cve-2019-11939
Vendor Advisory