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CVE-2026-84445VulnerabilityPublished

Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 CNF vRAN extras topology aware lifecycle manager update

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-84445· High 8.7

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.7 High : upgrade Red Hat grpc-go to 1.83.2 or 1.82.2 soon.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026, 16:32 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
8.7High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 1.83.2, 1.82.2
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

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 14 Sep 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 4 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade grpc-go and github.com/grpc/grpc-go to 1.83.2 or 1.82.2.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
grpcgrpc-goAffected
  • >=1.83.0 <1.83.2
Fixed in
  • 1.83.2
grpcgrpc-goAffected
  • <1.82.2
Fixed in
  • 1.82.2
Gogithub.com/grpc/grpc-gopkg:golang/github.com/grpc/grpc-goOther threatsAffected
  • <1.82.2
  • >=1.83.0 <1.83.2
Fixed in
  • 1.82.2
  • 1.83.2

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AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated topology aware lifecycle manager images for OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 that address this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to these updated packages and images following the official Red Hat documentation for cluster upgrades and asynchronous errata updates. No additional mitigations are specified or required beyond applying the vendor-provided update.

Description

A vulnerability (CVE-2026-84445) in gRPC-Go affects servers created with xds.NewGRPCServer(), allowing a remote client to send malformed RPC requests missing required :authority or Host headers. This triggers an index-out-of-bounds panic, causing the server process to crash and resulting in a denial of service (DoS). The issue primarily impacts deployments using xDS-managed gRPC servers. Standard gRPC servers without xDS routing are not affected. In environments with mutual TLS (mTLS), exploitation is limited to authenticated peers. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 includes updated topology aware lifecycle manager images addressing this issue. Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images.

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