gRPC compressed messages are only bounded by their compressed size, allowing compression bomb attacks
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## CVE record information
**Project name:** Eclipse Vert.x
**Project id:** rt.vertx
**Versions affected:**
\[4.0.0, 4.5.34\] or \[5.0.0,5.0.12\] or \[5.1.0,5.1.9\] or \[5.2.0, 5.2.0\]
**Common Vulnerability Scoring System:**
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
**Summary:**
In Eclipse Vert.x versions \[4.0.0, 4.5.34\] or \[5.0.0,5.0.12\] or \[5.1.0,5.1.9\] or \[5.2.0, 5.2.0\], a gRPC endpoint does have a configurable per message maximum size in bytes, however the maximum size applies to the received bytes. When applied to a compressed message, this only applies to the compressed size and not the actual size of the uncompressed content. This can be used to force a gRPC endpoint to allocate more bytes than the value defined by the configuration, making the endpoint vulnerable to compression bomb attacks.
The impacted component is io.vertx:vertx-gprc-server.
**Links:**
https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vertx-grpc/security/advisories/GHSA-4wvq-75mw-q6cg
**Credits:**
Mike Read.
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