CVE-2023-32731
HIGH7.4EPSS 0.07%Connection confusion in gRPC
Published: 7/5/2023Modified: 2/4/2026
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Maven/io.grpc:grpc-protobuf>= 1.53.0, < 1.53.1
- PyPI/grpcio>= 1.53.0, < 1.53.1
- RubyGems/grpc>= 1.53.0, < 1.53.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
References (9)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32731
- WEBhttps://github.com/grpc/grpc/commit/29d8beee0ac2555773b2a2dda5601c74a95d6c10
- WEBhttps://github.com/grpc/grpc/commit/65a2a895afaf1d2072447b9baf246374b182a946
- WEBhttps://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/33463
- WEBhttps://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/32309
- WEBhttps://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/33005
- WEBhttps://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/tag/v1.53.1
- WEBhttps://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/tag/v1.54.2
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/grpc/CVE-2023-32731.yml