FKIE_CVE-2018-20840

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-05-30 16:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:53
Severity
8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/google/google-api-cpp-client/issues/57Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/google/google-api-cpp-client/pull/58Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/google/google-api-cpp-client/issues/57Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/google/google-api-cpp-client/pull/58Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
google api_c\+\+_client *
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