Medium
Eclipse Vert.x gRPC server does not limit the maximum message size
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In Eclipse Vert.x version 4.3.0 to 4.5.9, the gRPC server does not limit the maximum length of message payload (Maven GAV: io.vertx:vertx-grpc-server and io.vertx:vertx-grpc-client). This is fixed in the 4.5.10 version. Note this does not affect the Vert.x gRPC server based grpc-java and Netty libraries (Maven GAV: io.vertx:vertx-grpc)
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2024-8391
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 15:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Eclipse Vert.x gRPC server does not limit the maximum message size
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 4 Sept 2024, 15:27 UTC
In Eclipse Vert.x version 4.3.0 to 4.5.9, the gRPC server does not limit the maximum length of message payload (Maven GAV: io.vertx:vertx-grpc-server and io.vertx:vertx-grpc-client). This is fixed in the 4.5.10 version. Note this does not affect the Vert.x gRPC server based grpc-java and Netty libraries (Maven GAV: io.vertx:vertx-grpc)
osv:CVE-2024-8391
Complete source record
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