CVE-2023-4785

Summary

CVECVE-2023-4785
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-13 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-19 16:02:00 UTC
DescriptionLack of error handling in the TCP server in Google's gRPC starting version 1.23 on posix-compatible platforms (ex. Linux) allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by initiating a significant number of connections with the server. Note that gRPC C++ Python, and Ruby are affected, but gRPC Java, and Go are NOT affected. 

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Grpc Grpc All All All All
Application Grpc Grpc 1.56.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[backport][iomgr][EventEngine] Improve server handling of file descriptor exhaustion by drfloob · Pull Request #33670 · grpc/grpc · GitHub MISC github.com
[backport][iomgr][EventEngine] Improve server handling of file descriptor exhaustion by drfloob · Pull Request #33669 · grpc/grpc · GitHub MISC github.com
[iomgr][EventEngine] Improve server handling of file descriptor exhaustion by drfloob · Pull Request #33656 · grpc/grpc · GitHub MISC github.com
[backport][iomgr][EventEngine] Improve server handling of file descriptor exhaustion by drfloob · Pull Request #33672 · grpc/grpc · GitHub MISC github.com
[backport][iomgr][EventEngine] Improve server handling of file descriptor exhaustion by drfloob · Pull Request #33667 · grpc/grpc · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 242923 Red Hat Update for Satellite 6.14.2 (RHSA-2024:0797)
  • 673647 EulerOS Security Update for grpc (EulerOS-SA-2023-3243)
  • 673764 EulerOS Security Update for grpc (EulerOS-SA-2023-3179)
  • 673987 EulerOS Security Update for grpc (EulerOS-SA-2023-3300)
  • 674009 EulerOS Security Update for grpc (EulerOS-SA-2023-3332)
  • 674014 EulerOS Security Update for grpc (EulerOS-SA-2023-3271)
  • 674065 EulerOS Security Update for grpc (EulerOS-SA-2023-3214)
  • 755815 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for abseil-cpp, grpc, opencensus-proto, protobuf, python-abseil, python-grpcio, re2 (SUSE-SU-2024:0573-1)
  • 997223 Python (Pip) Security Update for grpc (GHSA-p25m-jpj4-qcrr)
  • 997224 Rubygems (Rubygems) Security Update for grpc (GHSA-p25m-jpj4-qcrr)
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