CVE-2018-20840
Description
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.
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:google:api_c\+\+_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:google:api_c\+\+_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2019-04-10
- (no CPE)range: <2019-04-10
- Google Sign-In/Google API C++ Clientdescription
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References
2- github.com/google/google-api-cpp-client/pull/58nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/google/google-api-cpp-client/issues/57nvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
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