The API service on Google Home and Chromecast devices before mid-July 2018 does not prevent DNS rebinding attacks from reading the…

Description

The API service on Google Home and Chromecast devices before mid-July 2018 does not prevent DNS rebinding attacks from reading the scan_results JSON data, which allows remote attackers to determine the physical location of most web browsers by leveraging the presence of one of these devices on its local network, extracting the scan_results bssid fields, and sending these fields in a geolocation/v1/geolocate Google Maps Geolocation API request.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.69% · top 47% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (4)

• https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/06/google-to-fix-location-data-leak-in-google-home-chromecast/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://medium.com/%40brannondorsey/attacking-private-networks-from-the-internet-with-dns-rebinding-ea7098a2d325 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.wired.com/story/chromecast-roku-sonos-dns-rebinding-vulnerability/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/vert/googles-newest-feature-find-my-home/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 17 Sept 2024, 01:15 UTC.