SB2021071205 - Multiple vulnerabilities in gRPC Swift



SB2021071205 - Multiple vulnerabilities in gRPC Swift

Published: July 12, 2021

Security Bulletin ID SB2021071205
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
  • Low
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36153)

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

The vulnerability exists due to incomplete internal state distinction flaw in the GRPCWebToHTTP2ServerCodec function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36154)

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

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion and stack consumption flaw in the HTTP2ToRawGRPCServerCodec function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36155)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the LengthPrefixedMessageReader function. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.