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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2018-11798 json

Apache Thrift Node.js static web server sandbox escape

published 2019-01-07 7 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-vx85-mj8c-4qm6 , EUVD-2019-0195

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.7%
EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Apache Thrift Node.js static web server in versions 0.9.2 through 0.11.0 have been determined to contain a security vulnerability in which a remote user has the ability to access files outside the set webservers docroot path.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.thrift:libthrift 0.12.0
  • thrift Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.11.0-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11798

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-11798 updated cvss 7.5

thrift: Improper Access Control grants access to files outside the webservers docroot path

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 thrift
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 libthrift
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes libthrift
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.3.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1545
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.4.8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:3140
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 fb303, thrift, fb303-java, perl-thrift, python-fb303, python-thrift, +2 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 fb303, thrift, thrift-qt, fb303-java, perl-thrift, thrift-glib, +4 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 fb303, thrift, thrift-qt, fb303-java, perl-thrift, thrift-glib, +4 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 fb303, thrift, thrift-qt, fb303-java, perl-thrift, thrift-glib, +4 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 fb303, thrift, thrift-qt, fb303-java, perl-thrift, thrift-glib, +4 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 fb303, thrift, thrift-qt, fb303-java, perl-thrift, thrift-glib, +4 more
    +5 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 fb303, thrift, thrift-qt, fb303-java, perl-thrift, thrift-glib, +4 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 fb303, thrift, thrift-qt, fb303-java, perl-thrift, thrift-glib, +4 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky) opendaylight
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.thrift:libthrift
>=0.9.2, <0.12.0
0.12.0

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Thrift

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-538 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.