CVE-2018-20840
HIGHGoogle API C++ Client < 2019-04-10 - Denial of Service via ID Token Handling
Title source: llmDescription
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 (2)
Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/google/google-api-cpp-client/pull/58
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/google/google-api-cpp-client/issues/57
Scores
CVSS v3
8.6
EPSS
0.0065
EPSS Percentile
46.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-754
Status
published
Products (1)
google/api_c\+\+_client
< 2019-04-10
Published
May 30, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026