CVE-2023-32731

HIGH

gRPC 1.53.0-1.54.3 - HPACK Table Desynchronization via Header Size Exceeded Error

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When gRPC HTTP2 stack raised a header size exceeded error, it skipped parsing the rest of the HPACK frame. This caused any HPACK table mutations to also be skipped, resulting in a desynchronization of HPACK tables between sender and receiver. If leveraged, say, between a proxy and a backend, this could lead to requests from the proxy being interpreted as containing headers from different proxy clients - leading to an information leak that can be used for privilege escalation or data exfiltration. We recommend upgrading beyond the commit contained in  https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/33005 https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/33005

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 22.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-440
Status published
Products (4)
grpc/grpc 1.53.0 - 1.55.0
io.grpc/grpc-protobuf 1.53.0 - 1.53.1Maven
pypi/grpcio 1.53.0 - 1.53.1PyPI
rubygems/grpc 1.53.0 - 1.53.1RubyGems
Published Jun 09, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026