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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
google.golang.org/grpc	v1.83.1 → v1.83.2

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gRPC-Go xDS servers: Denial of Service (DoS) via crash due to missing :authority and Host headers

CVE-2026-84445 / GHSA-2v4p-qf9q-27wj

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Details

A vulnerability exists in gRPC-Go servers configured with xds.NewGRPCServer() where a crafted request missing both :authority and Host headers can cause a server panic, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

Servers built with xds.NewGRPCServer install an xDS routing interceptor on every RPC. This interceptor looks up the request’s :authority header to pick a virtual host. The HTTP/2 server transport previously accepted requests that had neither :authority nor Host. When this happened, the xDS routing interceptor attempted to access the first element of an empty slice of authorities, leading to an index out of bounds panic. Since the per-RPC goroutine does not recover from panics, the entire server process would terminate.

This panic occurs in the interceptor pipeline, meaning the transport credentials handshake (TLS, mTLS, or ALTS) and HTTP/2 connection establishment must complete successfully before the crafted request can reach this logic.

• Insecure/Standard TLS: If the server permits insecure (plaintext) connections or standard credentials (where client certs are not checked), any unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger the crash.
• mTLS / ALTS: If strict transport-level authentication is enforced at the network edge or transport layer (e.g., requiring a valid client certificate), the attacker must possess valid transport credentials to initiate the stream and trigger the panic.

Impact

An attacker can cause a complete outage of the gRPC server by sending a request missing both :authority and Host headers, provided they can successfully establish a transport connection.

Patches

The issue has been addressed in master (and backported to 1.84.0, 1.83.2 and 1.82.2). The fix updates the HTTP/2 transport layer to reject requests missing both :authority and Host headers early, maintaining consistency with and other gRPC language implementations.

Severity

• CVSS Score: 8.7 / 10 (High)
• Vector String: 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

References

• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-2v4p-qf9q-27wj
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/9354
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9365
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9366
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9367
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/3822494d8ea03b992c089fd2a195f041762fffb7
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/8668b69c167df908b6b3666dcbf40992b9e932a4
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/93e31b48545e2a8aaeb6e06b47fb249f94e6297f
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/releases/tag/v1.82.2
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/releases/tag/v1.83.2
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84445
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2v4p-qf9q-27wj

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

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Release Notes

grpc/grpc-go (google.golang.org/grpc)

v1.83.2: Release 1.83.2

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Security

• server: Reject requests missing both :authority and Host headers with HTTP 400 and status Internal. (#​9365)
  • Special Thanks: @​winklemad

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[futo-kritika]

Confidence Score: 5/5

[Low risk] The risk rests on a patch-level bump of an indirect gRPC dependency in two modules. The repository has no direct gRPC server use, and the go.sum entries are consistent with the go.mod change.

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Summary

Updates indirect gRPC dependencies to v1.83.2 in both Go modules.

The columbo and michael module manifests select the patch release, with matching checksum entries added to their go.sum files. Upstream’s v1.83.2 release notes identify a server-side fix rejecting requests missing both :authority and Host headers. The applications’ metrics exporters use OTLP over HTTP, and their source contains no direct gRPC server construction.

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[futo-kritika]

kritika: confidence 5/5 with low risk at 8994394.