CVE-2020-8896 (GCVE-0-2020-8896)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-04 13:25 – Updated: 2024-08-04 10:12
VLAI
Title
Buffer Overflow in Google Earth Pro
Summary
A Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the khcrypt implementation in Google Earth Pro versions up to and including 7.3.2 allows an attacker to perform a Man-in-the-Middle attack using a specially crafted key to read data past the end of the buffer used to hold it. Mitigation: Update to Google Earth Pro 7.3.3.
Severity
4.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Assigner
Google CNA under the Google root
CNA scorecard B 77/100 over 40 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://support.google.com/earth/answer/40901 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google LLC Google Earth Pro Affected: stable , ≤ 7.3.2 (custom)
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