gRPC-Go is the Go language implementation of gRPC. Prior to 1.82.2 and 1.83.2, servers created with xds.NewGRPCServer() allow internal/transport/http2_server.go to accept an RPC containing neither the :authority header nor the Host header, while RouteAndProcess in internal/xds/server/routing.go assumes that an authority value exists and indexes the empty slice. A remote client that can complete transport connection establishment can trigger an index-out-of-bounds panic that is not recovered by the per-RPC goroutine and terminates the entire server process. In insecure or ordinary TLS deployments the request can be unauthenticated, while strict mTLS or ALTS deployments require valid transport credentials before the malformed RPC can reach the interceptor. This issue is fixed in versions 1.82.2 and 1.83.2.
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-2v4p-qf9q-27wj
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/releases/tag/v1.83.2
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/releases/tag/v1.82.2
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9367
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9366
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9365
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/9354
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/93e31b48545e2a8aaeb6e06b47fb249f94e6297f
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/8668b69c167df908b6b3666dcbf40992b9e932a4
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/3822494d8ea03b992c089fd2a195f041762fffb7
Published: 2026-09-14
Updated: 2026-09-25
Base Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Severity: High
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: High
Base Score: 8.7
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Severity: High
EPSS: 0.00685