CVSS 3.0
4.3 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NCVE-2018-12716
Medium (4.3) in google. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- google:chromecast_firmware
- google:home_firmware
References
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/06/google-to-fix-location-data-leak-in-google-home-chromecast/
- https://medium.com/%40brannondorsey/attacking-private-networks-from-the-internet-with-dns-rebinding-ea7098a2d325
- https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/vert/googles-newest-feature-find-my-home/
- https://www.wired.com/story/chromecast-roku-sonos-dns-rebinding-vulnerability/
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/06/google-to-fix-location-data-leak-in-google-home-chromecast/