Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-41608

Apache Thrift ≤ 0.24.0

Published
27 July 2026
Modified
28 July 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.011 63th percentile
Risk Priority 60 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-41608 is a high-severity Data Amplification (CWE-409) vulnerability in Apache Thrift. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499); ranked in the top 37% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SC-5 (Denial-of-service Protection) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Apache Thrift Python bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.24.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.24.0, which fixes the issue.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service Impact
Adversaries may perform Endpoint Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of services to users.
T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood Impact
Adversaries may target resource intensive features of applications to cause a denial of service (DoS), denying availability to those applications.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

apache
thrift
≤ 0.24.0

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Input validation can reject or limit decompression of data whose expansion ratio exceeds safe thresholds.

DoS protection limits the resource-exhaustion impact when a decompression bomb is processed.

Resource allocation controls bound memory/CPU consumption that a data-amplification attack would otherwise exhaust.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure-development practices include input-validation and resource-limit checks that prevent improper handling of compressed data.

DE.CM-09 partial match
prevents

Runtime monitoring of compute resources can detect exhaustion caused by decompression bombs.

PR.IR-04 partial match
prevents

Capacity planning and monitoring directly limits the availability impact of data-amplification attacks.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

finds

Security testing can uncover decompression-bomb vulnerabilities before release.

mitigates

Redundancy helps availability but does not address the root cause of the weakness.

finds

Monitoring can detect anomalous resource usage but does not prevent the weakness.

prevents

Secure development lifecycle includes input validation and resource-limit checks that mitigate data-amplification attacks.

prevents

Application security requirements can mandate limits on decompression size and ratio.

prevents

Secure architecture principles encourage defensive design against resource-exhaustion threats.

References