ghsa-cfgp-2977-2fmm
Vulnerability from github
Published
2023-07-05 19:12
Modified
2025-08-13 14:56
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Summary
Connection confusion in gRPC
Details

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.

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  "id": "GHSA-cfgp-2977-2fmm",
  "modified": "2025-08-13T14:56:11Z",
  "published": "2023-07-05T19:12:51Z",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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}


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