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SCA: security update for grpc, grpcio, io.grpc:grpc-protobuf (GHSA-6628-q6j9-w8vg)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421650

Description

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

 - There exists an vulnerability causing an abort() to be called in gRPC. The following headers cause gRPC's
 C++ implementation to abort() when called via http2: te: x (x != trailers) :scheme: x (x != http, https)
 grpclb_client_stats: x (x == anything) On top of sending one of those headers, a later header must be sent
 that gets the total header size past 8KB. We recommend upgrading past git commit
 2485fa94bd8a723e5c977d55a3ce10b301b437f8 or v1.53 and above. (CVE-2023-1428)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6628-q6j9-w8vg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421650

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: 3

Percentile: 23.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1428

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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-2023-1428

cwe: CWE-617