fix(deps): update module google.golang.org/grpc to v1.83.1 [security] - autoclosed

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
google.golang.org/grpc	v1.79.3 → v1.83.1

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gRPC-Go: xDS RBAC and HTTP/2 Vulnerabilities

GHSA-hrxh-6v49-42gf

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Details

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified and addressed in grpc-go affecting the xDS RBAC authorization engine (internal/xds/rbac) and the HTTP/2 transport server implementation (internal/transport). These vulnerabilities could result in:

• Authorization Bypass (Fail-Open) when translating xDS RBAC policies containing Metadata or RequestedServerName fields.
• Denial of Service (High CPU Consumption) due to an HTTP/2 Rapid Reset mitigation bypass during client-initiated stream resets.
• Denial of Service (Server Panic) when parsing crafted xDS RBAC policies containing NOT rules around unsupported fields.

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?

xDS RBAC Authorization Bypass via Metadata & RequestedServerName matchers

• Affected Component: xDS RBAC
• Impact: When building policy matchers for gRPC RBAC from xDS configurations, unsupported permission and principal rules (specifically Metadata and RequestedServerName) were silently ignored and treated as no-ops.
  • If an authorization policy relied purely on these matchers for access control, treating those rules as no-ops effectively removed the restrictions.
• If these unsupported rules were nested inside logical NOT rules (Permission_NotRule / Principal_NotId) or multi-condition OR/AND rules, silently dropping them changed the boolean logic flow of the authorization engine.

As a result, policy evaluation decisions could fail open, allowing unauthorized clients to access protected gRPC services or resources.

HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Mitigation Bypass / Denial of Service via Stream Aborts

• Affected Component: HTTP/2 transport
• Impact: Earlier mitigations in grpc-go for HTTP/2 Rapid Reset only applied threshold checks to items that directly resulted in control frames being written back to the wire, such as SETTINGS ACKs or server-initiated RST_STREAMs.

When a client initiated a rapid flood of stream creation (HEADERS) immediately followed by stream termination RST_STREAM, items queued up in the control buffer without counting against the transport response frame threshold. An attacker can repeatedly trigger this flood sequence to bypass reader blocking, resulting in high CPU usage, and Denial of Service (DoS).

Denial of Service (Panic) in xDS RBAC Engine via Unsupported Fields inside NOT Rules

• Affected Component: xDS RBAC
• Impact: The xDS RBAC policy translators recursively generate matchers for nested rules. When a NOT rule wrapped an unsupported or unhandled field (such as SourcedMetadata), the recursive step returned an empty matcher. This could result in a runtime panic when the RBAC engine attempts to authorize an incoming request.

An attacker or misconfigured/malicious xDS management server delivering an LDS/RDS update containing a NOT rule around an unhandled field causes the gRPC server process to crash immediately (CWE-248 / Denial of Service).

Patches

Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?

All three issues have been fixed in master and will be released in 1.82.1 shortly.

Workarounds

Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?

If upgrading grpc-go immediately is not possible, apply the following workarounds based on your deployment architecture:

• For xDS RBAC Vulnerabilities & Panics: Ensure that upstream xDS management servers do not push RBAC policies containing Metadata, RequestedServerName, or NOT rules wrapping unsupported fields (such as SourcedMetadata) to grpc-go servers.
• For HTTP/2 Rapid Reset DOS: Configure upstream reverse proxies or load balancers (such as Envoy) with strict HTTP/2 max_concurrent_streams limits and active rate limiting on RST_STREAM frequency per connection.

Severity

Vulnerability	Qualitative Severity	Approximate CVSS v3.1 Score	Primary Impact
xDS RBAC Authorization Bypass	High	8.2	Unauthorized Access / Fail-Open
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset DOS Bypass	High	7.5	High CPU Consumption / Denial of Service
xDS RBAC Engine Server Panic	Medium	5.9	Process Crash / Denial of Service

Severity

• CVSS Score: 8.8 / 10 (High)
• Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-hrxh-6v49-42gf
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9236
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/4ea465d4ab98013f72a142fe0fc89c19770b2935
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/releases/tag/v1.82.1
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hrxh-6v49-42gf

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

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gRPC-Go: Heap Memory Exhaustion (OOM) via HTTP/2 DATA Frame Fragmentation

CVE-2026-84304 / GHSA-vp52-pcj8-j9qc

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Details

Impact

An unauthenticated remote attacker can initiate a gRPC stream and purposefully fragment their payload into millions of tiny (e.g., 1-byte) HTTP/2 DATA frames. Even if the total payload volume falls within the configured connection and stream flow-control windows, each independent fragment incurs memory overhead due to internal tracking structures and queue allocation.

Repeated fragmentation massively inflates the heap space consumed by the stream. An attacker multiplexing multiple concurrent streams can exhaust the memory bounds of the runtime, forcing a runtime panic or OutOfMemory condition and leading to a remote Denial of Service (DoS).

Patches

The change to fix this issue is merged in master and a patch release, 1.83.1, has been published that contains this fix.

Workarounds

This vulnerability is mitigated by implementing receive buffer compaction. Consecutive small data buffers are automatically coalesced into larger buffers from a shared pool once the overhead is perceived to be excessive relative to actual payload data, drastically minimizing per-frame memory overheads.

This behavior is enabled by default. A temporary escape hatch is provided via the environment variable GRPC_GO_EXPERIMENTAL_ENABLE_RECEIVE_BUFFER_COMPACTION=false to disable the feature if unforeseen issues arise, but it will be removed in a future release.

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

References

• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/security/advisories/GHSA-vp52-pcj8-j9qc
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84304
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9331
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/9333
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/7354d9c8debb4bcf2225bf429857078de310c176
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/8cfeca0e1ee5ea0980dcc320e20240fa1079ec77
• https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/releases/tag/v1.83.1
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vp52-pcj8-j9qc

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)

v1.83.1: Release 1.83.1

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Security

• xds/rbac: Fix a bug where nested Principal or Permission rules with :scheme or grpc- prefixed header matchers were not rejected, which could cause DENY rules to fail open. (#​9258)
  • Special Thanks: @​nvxbug
• xds/rbac: Fix a bug where the host header matcher was not being replaced with :authority in nested Principal or Permission rules. (#​9258)
  • Special Thanks: @​nvxbug
• xds/rbac: Fix a bug where a header matcher whose name was not lowercase, such as X-Role, matched no header, which could cause DENY rules to fail open. (#​9332)
  • Special Thanks: @​alimony
• xds/rbac: Fix a bug where a :scheme or grpc- prefixed header matcher was accepted when its name was not lowercase. (#​9332)
  • Special Thanks: @​alimony
• xds/rbac: Fix a bug where a Host header matcher was not replaced with :authority. (#​9332)
  • Special Thanks: @​alimony

Performance

• transport: Restrict memory overhead of buffering small data frames. (#​9331)

v1.83.0: Release 1.83.0

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Security

• server: Stop reading from connections when flooded by HTTP/2 frames to mitigate resource exhaustion. The default value for this limit is 100 frames, excluding DATA and HEADERS, and may be changed by setting environment variable GRPC_GO_EXPERIMENTAL_CONTROL_BUFFER_THROTTLE_LIMIT.
• xds/rbac: Support Metadata and RequestedServerName permissions matcher fields. If present in a DENY rule, previously these would be ignored and fail-open.
• xds/rbac: Fix panic when parsing unsupported fields in NotRule/NotId permissions.
• xds/rbac: Support the deprecated source_ip principal identifier by treating it as equivalent to direct_remote_ip.
• xds: Fix panic when parsing route header matchers configured with empty exact_match, prefix_match, or suffix_match strings. (#​9223)

New Features

• xds/googlec2p: Enable DirectPath over Interconnect support for on-premises clients via the force-xds target URI query parameter. (#​9133)
• xds: Enable xDS configuration to control which fields get propagated from ORCA backend metric reports to LRS load reports. (#​9145)
• authz: Add OnPolicyUpdate callback to FileWatcherOptions to notify when an authz policy is loaded or updated. (#​9142)
  • Special Thanks: @​hnefatl
• xds: Add support for the GCP Authentication HTTP Filter, which automatically fetches and attaches GCP Service Account Identity JWT tokens to outgoing RPCs.
  • This feature can be enabled by setting environment variable GRPC_EXPERIMENTAL_XDS_GCP_AUTHENTICATION_FILTER=true. (#​9119)
• xds: Add support for xDS-based HTTP CONNECT proxies.
  • This feature can be enabled by setting environment variable GRPC_EXPERIMENTAL_XDS_HTTP_CONNECT=true. (#​9151)
• xds: Add support for contains_match in route header matchers. (#​9223)

Bug Fixes

• credentials/alts: Fix panic when processing malformed frames by validating that the message frame length exceeds the message type field size. (#​9197)
• grpc: Fix compilation on Plan 9 targets (GOOS=plan9), broken since v1.81.0. (#​9255)
  • Special Thanks: @​Yusufihsangorgel

v1.82.2: Release 1.82.2

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Security

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

v1.82.1: Release 1.82.1

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Security

• server: Stop reading from the connection when flooded by HTTP/2 frames. The default value for this limit is 100 frames, excluding DATA and HEADERS, and may be changed by setting environment variable GRPC_GO_EXPERIMENTAL_CONTROL_BUFFER_THROTTLE_LIMIT.
• xds/rbac: Support Metadata and RequestedServerName permissions matcher fields. If present in a DENY rule, previously these would be ignored and fail-open.
• xds/rbac: Fix panic when parsing unsupported fields in NotRule/NotId permissions.
• xds/rbac: Support the deprecated source_ip principal identifier by treating it as equivalent to direct_remote_ip.

v1.82.0: Release 1.82.0

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Behavior Changes

• server: Remove support for GRPC_GO_EXPERIMENTAL_DISABLE_STRICT_PATH_CHECKING environment varibale. Strict incoming RPC path validation (which has been the default since v1.79.3) can no longer be disabled. (#​9112)
• transport: Add environment variable to change the default max header list size from 16MB to 8KB. This may be enabled by setting GRPC_GO_EXPERIMENTAL_ENABLE_8KB_DEFAULT_HEADER_LIST_SIZE=true. This will be enabled by default in a subsequent release. (#​9019)
• balancer: Load Balancing policy registry is now case-sensitive. Set GRPC_GO_EXPERIMENTAL_CASE_SENSITIVE_BALANCER_REGISTRIES=false (and file an issue) to revert to case-insensitive behavior. (#​9017)

New Features

• experimental/stats: Expose a new API, NewContextWithLabelCallback, to register a callback that is invoked when telemetry labels are added. (#​8877)
  • Special Thanks: @​seth-epps
• client: Return a portion of the response body in the error message, when the client receives an unexpected non-gRPC HTTP response, to make debugging easier. (#​8929)
  • Special Thanks: @​chengxilo
• server: Add environment variable GRPC_GO_SERVER_GOROUTINE_LABELS that controls setting runtime/pprof.Labels on goroutines spawned by the server. Set GRPC_GO_SERVER_GOROUTINE_LABELS=grpc.method=true to add the grpc.method label on goroutines spawned to handle incoming requests. (#​9082)
  • Special Thanks: @​dfinkel

Bug Fixes

• xds/server: Fix a memory leak of HTTP filter instances occurring when route configurations are updated in-place during a Route Discovery Service (RDS) update. (#​9138)
• grpc: In the deprecated gzip Compressor (used via the deprecated WithCompressor dial option), enforce the MaxRecvMsgSize limit on the decompressed message buffer, preventing excessive memory allocation from highly compressed payloads. (#​9114)
  • Special Thanks: @​evilgensec
• stats/opentelemetry: Record retry attempts, grpc.previous-rpc-attempts, at the call level and not the attempt level. (#​8923)
• encoding: Ensure Close() is always called on readers returned from Compressor.Decompress if possible. (#​9135)
• channelz: Fix the LastMessageSentTimestamp and LastMessageReceivedTimestamp fields in SocketMetrics to ensure they contain correct timestamp values. (#​9109)

v1.81.1: Release 1.81.1

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Security

• xds/rbac: Fix a potential authorization bypass caused by incorrectly falling through URI/DNS SANs to Subject Distinguished Name (DN) when matching the authenticated principal name. With this fix, only the first non-empty identity source will be used, as per gRFC A41. (#​9111)
  • Special Thanks: @​al4an444

v1.81.0: Release 1.81.0

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Behavior Changes

• balancer/rls: Switch gauge metrics to asynchronous emission (once per collection cycle) to reduce telemetry noise and align with other gRPC language implementations. (#​8808)

Dependencies

• Minimum supported Go version is now 1.25. (#​8969)

Bug Fixes

• xds: Use the leaf cluster's security config for the TLS handshake instead of the aggregate cluster's config. (#​8956)
• transport: Send a RST_STREAM when receiving an END_STREAM when the stream is not already half-closed. (#​8832)
• xds: Fix ADS resource name validation to prevent a panic. (#​8970)

New Features

• grpc/stats: Add support for custom labels in per-call metrics (gRFC A108). (#​9008)
• xds: Add support for Server Name Indication (SNI) and SAN validation (gRFC A101). Disabled by default. To enable, set GRPC_EXPERIMENTAL_XDS_SNI=true environment variable. (#​9016)
• xds: Add support to control which fields get propagated from ORCA backend metric reports to LRS load reports (gRFC A85). Disabled by default. To enable, set GRPC_EXPERIMENTAL_XDS_ORCA_LRS_PROPAGATION=true. (#​9005)
• xds: Add metrics to track xDS client connectivity and cached resource state (gRFC A78). (#​8807)
• stats/otel: Enhance grpc.subchannel.disconnections metric by adding disconnection reason to the grpc.disconnect_error label (gRFC A94). This provides granular insights into why subchannels are closing. (#​8973)
• mem: Add mem.Buffer.Slice() API to slice the buffer like a slice. (#​8977)
  • Special Thanks: @​ash2k

Performance Improvements

• alts: Pool read buffers to lower memory utilization when sockets are unreadable. (#​8964)
• transport: Pool HTTP/2 framer read buffers to reduce idle memory consumption. Currently limited to Linux for ALTS and non-encrypted transports (TCP, Unix). To disable, set GRPC_GO_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP_FRAMER_READ_BUFFER_POOLING=false and report any issues. (#​9032)

v1.80.0

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