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🔒 Security: Fix Critical CVE Vulnerabilities in grpcurl

Overview

This PR addresses 10 critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities (CVEs) in the grpcurl fork by upgrading Go and dependencies to their latest secure versions.

🚨 Vulnerabilities Fixed

CVE ID Severity Score Description Status
CVE-2024-24790 Critical 9.8 IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses issue in net/netip ✅ Fixed
CVE-2025-22871 High 9.1 HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in net/http ✅ Fixed
CVE-2024-24784 High 7.5 Incorrect handling of comments in display names within net/mail ✅ Fixed
CVE-2022-30635 High 7.5 Potential stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode ✅ Fixed
CVE-2023-45283 High 7.5 Denial of service vulnerability in net/http package ✅ Fixed
CVE-2023-44487 High 7.5 Denial of service vulnerability in net/http package ✅ Fixed
CVE-2024-24791 High 7.5 Denial of service vulnerability in net/http package ✅ Fixed
CVE-2024-34156 High 7.5 Potential stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode ✅ Fixed
CVE-2024-34158 High 7.5 Potential stack exhaustion in Parse for build tags ✅ Fixed
CVE-2023-39325 High 7.5 Vulnerability in golang.org/x/net ✅ Fixed

🔧 Changes Made

Go Version Upgrade

  • Before: Go 1.24.0
  • After: Go 1.25.1 (latest stable)
  • Impact: All CVE vulnerabilities resolved through Go standard library fixes

Dependency Updates

  • gRPC: v1.61.0v1.70.0
  • golang.org/x/net: v0.38.0v0.43.0
  • golang.org/x/sys: v0.31.0v0.35.0
  • golang.org/x/text: v0.23.0v0.28.0
  • golang.org/x/sync: v0.12.0v0.16.0
  • golang.org/x/oauth2: v0.27.0v0.30.0
  • google.golang.org/protobuf: Updated to latest
  • github.com/jhump/protoreflect: Updated to latest

Docker Security Enhancements

  • Updated Dockerfile to use golang:1.25.1-alpine
  • Updated Alpine base image to 3.20
  • Fixed Docker build warnings (MAINTAINER → LABEL, FROM casing)
  • Maintained multi-stage build for minimal attack surface

✅ Verification

Build & Test Status

  • Build: go build ./cmd/grpcurl - Successful
  • Tests: go test ./... - All tests passing
  • Docker: docker build -t grpcurl-secure . - Successful

Security Scanning

Using Trivy vulnerability scanner:
And Docker Scout

trivy image grpcurl-secure

Results:

  • 0 vulnerabilities detected
  • 0 secrets found
  • 0 misconfigurations detected
  • Clean security report

��️ Security Impact

  • Risk Reduction: Eliminated 10 critical/high-severity vulnerabilities
  • Attack Surface: Minimized through updated dependencies and Go runtime
  • Compliance: Meets security best practices for containerized applications
  • Production Ready: Verified through comprehensive testing and scanning

�� Testing

# Verify Go version
go version
# Output: go version go1.25.1 darwin/arm64

# Test Docker image
docker run --rm grpcurl-secure --version
# Output: grpcurl 1.8.9

# Run vulnerability scan
trivy image grpcurl-secure
# Output: 0 vulnerabilities detected

�� References


⚠️ Breaking Changes: None - This is a security-focused update with full backward compatibility.

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yashGoyal40 commented Sep 4, 2025

Hi @jhump — just wanted to check if there’s anything else needed from my side to move the PR forward. Thanks!

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