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Denial of Service via reachable assertion

High
glbrntt published GHSA-r6ww-5963-7r95 Mar 23, 2022

Package

swift grpc-swift (Swift)

Affected versions

< 1.7.1

Patched versions

1.7.2

Description

A grpc-swift server is vulnerable to a denial of service attack via a reachable assertion. This was due to incorrect logic when handling GOAWAY frames.

The attack is low-effort: it takes very little resources to construct and send the required sequence of frames. The impact on availability is high as the server will crash, dropping all in flight connections and requests.

The issue was discovered by automated fuzz testing and is resolved by fixing the relevant state handling code.

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE ID

CVE-2022-24777

Weaknesses