CVE-2018-20840

An unhandled exception vulnerability exists during Google Sign-In with Google API C++ Client before 2019-04-10

published May 30, 2019

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
50.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An unhandled exception vulnerability exists during Google Sign-In with Google API C++ Client before 2019-04-10. It potentially causes an outage of third-party services that were not designed to recover from exceptions. On the client, ID token handling can cause an unhandled exception because of misinterpretation of an integer as a string, resulting in denial-of-service and then other users can no longer login/sign-in to the affected third-party service. Once this third-party service uses Google Sign-In with google-api-cpp-client, a malicious user can trigger this client/auth/oauth2_authorization.cc vulnerability by requesting the client to receive the ID token from a Google authentication server.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00651 · 50.3th percentile
Published
2019-05-30T15:58Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 MAY 15:58Z
    An unhandled exception vulnerability exists during Google Sign-In with Google API C++ Client before 2019-04-10
    cvelistv5