SCA: security update for grpc, grpcio, io.grpc:grpc-protobuf (GHSA-9hxf-ppjv-w6rq)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421624

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- gRPC contains a vulnerability whereby a client can cause a termination of connection between a HTTP2 proxy
and a gRPC server: a base64 encoding error for `-bin` suffixed headers will result in a disconnection by
the gRPC server, but is typically allowed by HTTP2 proxies. We recommend upgrading beyond the commit in
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/32309 https://www.google.com/url (CVE-2023-32732)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9hxf-ppjv-w6rq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421624

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32732

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-32732

cwe: CWE-440