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CVE-2023-1428

Denial-of-Service in gRPC

Published: Jun 9, 2023Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-617
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 66.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
1 Known
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

There exists an vulnerability causing an abort() to be called in gRPC.  The following headers cause gRPC's C++ implementation to abort() when called via http2: te: x (x != trailers) :scheme: x (x != http, https) grpclb_client_stats: x (x == anything) On top of sending one of those headers, a later header must be sent that gets the total header size past 8KB. We recommend upgrading past git commit 2485fa94bd8a723e5c977d55a3ce10b301b437f8 or v1.53 and above.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-617

Affected Products

Wazuh, Inc
commercial·SEaka wazuh
WazuhOn-premSecurity Product
Security Products / vuln-mgmt-scanner
Google Inc
commercial·USaka Google, google llc
gRPCLibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
Maven
package-ecosystem
io.grpc:grpc-protobuf
OSS Libraries
PyPI
package-ecosystem
grpcio
OSS Libraries
RubyGems
package-ecosystem
grpc
OSS Libraries
grpc
oss-project
grpcLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
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Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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References

https://vuldb.com/?id.231162
vuldb.com
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/commit/2485fa94bd8a723e5c977d55a3ce10b301b437f8
github.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1428
nvd.nist.gov
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