Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting io.vertx:vertx-grpc-server package, versions [4.3.0,4.5.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-IOVERTX-7897418
  • published 5 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 4 Sep 2024
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade io.vertx:vertx-grpc-server to version 4.5.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to the lack of a maximum message size limit. An attacker can cause a denial of service by sending excessively large messages.

Note This vulnerability does not affect the Vert.x gRPC server based grpc-java and Netty libraries (Maven GAV: io.vertx:vertx-grpc)

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    None
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    Low
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None