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High · 7.5 CVE-2023-1428 EUVD-2023-1972GHSA-6628-q6j9-w8vgPYSEC-2026-1425

Denial-of-Service in gRPC

Published Jun 9, 2023 · Updated Sep 26, 2024 · Assigned by Google

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Google gRPC 1.51 – < 1.53 1.53

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 grpc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS grpc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 grpc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS grpc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS grpc No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS grpc No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS grpc No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 rhc-worker-playbook 0.1.10-1.el9_5 RHSA-2024:10761

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling wavefront-proxy 13.4-r1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.grpc:grpc-protobuf >= 1.51.0, < 1.53.0 1.53.0 GHSA-6628-q6j9-w8vg
PyPI grpcio >= 1.51.0, < 1.53.0 1.53.0 PYSEC-2026-1425
RubyGems grpc >= 1.51.0, < 1.53.0 1.53.0 GHSA-6628-q6j9-w8vg

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