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Vulnerability details: VCID-3yj7-2uwb-rfeg
Vulnerability ID VCID-3yj7-2uwb-rfeg
Aliases CVE-2023-4785
GHSA-p25m-jpj4-qcrr
Summary Denial of Service Vulnerability in gRPC TCP Server (Posix-compatible platforms) Lack of error handling in the TCP server in Google's gRPC starting version 1.23 on posix-compatible platforms (ex. Linux) allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by initiating a significant number of connections with the server. Note that gRPC C++ Python, and Ruby are affected, but gRPC Java, and Go are NOT affected.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-248 Uncaught Exception
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/33656
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/33667
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/33669
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/33670
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/33672
https://groups.google.com/g/grpc-io/c/LlLkB1CeE4U
https://rubygems.org/gems/grpc/versions/1.53.2
https://rubygems.org/gems/grpc/versions/1.54.3
https://rubygems.org/gems/grpc/versions/1.55.3
https://rubygems.org/gems/grpc/versions/1.56.2
CVE-2023-4785 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4785
CVE-2023-4785.YML https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/grpc/CVE-2023-4785.yml
GHSA-p25m-jpj4-qcrr https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p25m-jpj4-qcrr
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:45:46.433036+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/grpc/CVE-2023-4785.yml 38.6.0