CVE-2023-4785 (GCVE-0-2023-4785)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-13 16:31
Modified
2026-01-12 15:34
CWE
Summary
Lack 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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Google gRPC Patch: 0   < 1.23
Version: 1.56.0   <
Version: 1.55.0   <
Version: 1.54.0   <
Version: 1.53.0   <
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