CVE-2023-33953

gRPC contains a vulnerability that allows hpack table accounting errors could lead to unwanted disconnects between clients and servers in exceptional cases/ Three vectors were found that allow the following DOS attacks: - Unbounded memory buffering in the HPACK parser - Unbounded CPU consumption in the HPACK parser The unbounded CPU consumption is down to a copy that occurred per-input-block in the parser, and because that could be unbounded due to the memory copy bug we end up with an O(n^2) parsing loop, with n selected by the client. The unbounded memory buffering bugs: - The header size limit check was behind the string reading code, so we needed to first buffer up to a 4 gigabyte string before rejecting it as longer than 8 or 16kb. - HPACK varints have an encoding quirk whereby an infinite number of 0’s can be added at the start of an integer. gRPC’s hpack parser needed to read all of them before concluding a parse. - gRPC’s metadata overflow check was performed per frame, so that the following sequence of frames could cause infinite buffering: HEADERS: containing a: 1 CONTINUATION: containing a: 2 CONTINUATION: containing a: 3 etc…
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:grpc:grpc:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grpc:grpc:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grpc:grpc:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grpc:grpc:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 08:06

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins#gcp-2023-022 - Vendor Advisory () https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins#gcp-2023-022 - Vendor Advisory

17 Aug 2023, 14:15

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CPE cpe:2.3:a:grpc:grpc:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:*
CWE CWE-834
CWE-770
First Time Grpc grpc
Grpc
References (MISC) https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins#gcp-2023-022 - (MISC) https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins#gcp-2023-022 - Vendor Advisory
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5

09 Aug 2023, 13:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-08-09 13:15

Updated : 2024-11-21 08:06


NVD link : CVE-2023-33953

Mitre link : CVE-2023-33953

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-33953


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Products Affected

grpc

  • grpc
CWE
CWE-789

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

CWE-834

Excessive Iteration

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling