CVE-2026-84445: high-severity vulnerability in grpc-go
gRPC-Go: Denial of Service (DoS) via crash due to missing `:authority` and `Host` headers in the xDS servers
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.7epss 0.6%
gRPC-Go is the Go language implementation of gRPC. Prior to 1.82.2 and 1.83.2, servers created with xds.NewGRPCServer() allow internal/transport/http2_server.go to accept an RPC containing neither the :authority header nor the Host header, while RouteAndProcess in internal/xds/server/routing.go assumes that an authority value exists and indexes the empty slice. A remote client that can complete transport connection establishment can trigger an index-out-of-bounds panic that is not recovered by the per-RPC goroutine and terminates the entire server process. In insecure or ordinary TLS deployments the request can be unauthenticated, while strict mTLS or ALTS deployments require valid transport credentials before the malformed RPC can reach the interceptor. This issue is fixed in versions 1.82.2 and 1.83.2.
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
Affected products
grpc · grpc-goRelated CVEs — grpc-go
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-33186CRITICALgRPC-Go has an authorization bypass via missing leading slash in :pathEPSS 1.6%CVE-2026-84304HIGHgRPC-Go: Heap Memory Exhaustion (OOM) via HTTP/2 DATA Frame FragmentationEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-84303MEDIUMgRPC-Go: xDS RBAC HTTP Filter bypass via mixed-case Header Matching and gRFC A41 validation evasionEPSS 0.3%
References
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/3822494d8ea03b992c089fd2a195f041762fffb7https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/8668b69c167df908b6b3666dcbf40992b9e932a4https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/93e31b48545e2a8aaeb6e06b47fb249f94e6297fhttps://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/9354https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9365https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9366https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9367https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/releases/tag/v1.82.2https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/releases/tag/v1.83.2https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-2v4p-qf9q-27wj