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CVE-2023-32731

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-32731 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting gRPC HTTP2 stack, where an error in header size processing can desynchronize HPACK tables between a sender and receiver. This desynchronization could lead to information leaks, potentially enabling privilege escalation or data exfiltration, especially when a proxy is involved. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity and high confidentiality impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.53.0, < 1.55.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:grpc:grpc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.4HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 18th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: io.grpc:grpc-protobufFixed in: 1.53.1
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: io.grpc:grpc-protobufFixed in: 1.54.2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 grpc 1.42.0-7 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 1.62.0-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 ARMFixed in: 1.62.0-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 x64Fixed in: 1.62.0-2
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: grpcioFixed in: 1.54.2
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: grpcioFixed in: 1.53.1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: rhc-worker-playbook-0:0.1.10-1.el9_5
View patch
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: grpcFixed in: 1.53.1
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: grpcFixed in: 1.54.2
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: grpc

Vendor Advisories (4)

microsoft2024-Jun/CVE-2023-32731

CVE-2023-32731

Jun 11, 2024
mavenGHSA-cfgp-2977-2fmmhigh

Connection confusion in gRPC

Jul 5, 2023
microsoft2023-Jun/CVE-2023-32731Important

Information leak in gRPC

Jun 13, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-32731Moderate

gRPC: sensitive information disclosure

Jun 9, 2023

References

github.com / grpc/grpc/pull/32309
Patch
github.com / grpc/grpc/pull/33005
Patch