Reachable Assertion in gRPC - CVE-2023-1428

 

Reachable Assertion in gRPC - CVE-2023-1428

Published: September 14, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU80770
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1428
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion. A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

gRPC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
rhc-worker-playbook (Red Hat package)
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
watsonx.data
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
HPE Telco IP Mediation E-Media
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Juniper Cloud Native Router
Junos cRPD

How to mitigate CVE-2023-1428

Install updates from vendor's website.

gRPC - update to 1.53.0
rhc-worker-playbook (Red Hat package) - update to 0.1.10-1.el9_5
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator - update to 1.2.3 601632-wmla
watsonx.data - update to 2.0.3
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.1.2
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.7.1
HPE Telco IP Mediation E-Media - update to 8.5.1
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation - addressed in versions 21.0.3.24, 23.0.1.2
Juniper Cloud Native Router - update to 23.4R1
Junos cRPD - update to 23.4R1

External References

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