Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting io.vertx:vertx-grpc-client package, versions [4.3.0,4.5.10)
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- published5 Sept 2024
- disclosed4 Sept 2024
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 4 Sep 2024
CVE-2024-8391 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade io.vertx:vertx-grpc-client 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)