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CVE-2026-82231: Apache bRPC: Malformed Thrift T_EXCEPTION reply causes process termination in Thrift client

HighCVSS 7.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

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Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.41% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • Fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache bRPC 1.18.0.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Apache Software Foundation Apache bRPC 1.18.0 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

A Thrift client in Apache bRPC (version < 1.18.0, built with WITH_THRIFT which is off by default) can be crashed by the server peer it talks to. When the server returns a T_EXCEPTION reply whose exception struct is malformed, the client decodes it without catching what Apache Thrift throws (TProtocolException, TTransportException or std::length_error). The exception unwinds out of the bthread task function and the process calls std::terminate(), terminating the whole process along with every other in-flight RPC. This is the client response path, so the adversary is the server peer, which THREAT_MODEL.md treats as untrusted. It requires a WITH_THRIFT build (off by default). How to Fix: 1. Upgrade bRPC to version 1.18.0, which fixes this issue. 2. Apply this patch: https://github.com/apache/brpc/pull/3500

Published
Oct 21, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
EPSS
0.4% · 36th percentile

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial

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  • Apache Software Foundation Apache bRPC

    • before 1.18.0affected · semver

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-82210Oct 21, 2026 · Apache bRPC: Remote denial of service (crash) via malformed stream feedback frames
    30Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-82230Oct 21, 2026 · Apache bRPC: Stack Exhaustion via Unbounded Recursion in mcpack2pb Parser
    30Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-82425Oct 21, 2026 · Apache bRPC: Reachable Assertion in Socket::OnInputEvent Allows Remote Denial of Service
    30Monitor

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Apache Software Foundation Apache bRPC1.18.0Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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  1. Published
  2. Fix recordedsame day
  3. TodayNov 12, 2026+22 d
EPSS, last 120 days

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-248 · Uncaught Exception

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. CVSS— → 7.5
  2. Severity— → high
  3. SSVC exploitation— → none
  4. Exploit maturity— → none
  5. Fix✗ → ✓

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