Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Google Compute Engine - CVE-2019-16547
Published: November 22, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU22923
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16547
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected plugin does not verify permissions on multiple auto-complete API endpoints. A remote authenticated attacker with Overall/Read permissions can view various metadata about the running cloud environment.
Affected software
Google Compute Engine
How to mitigate CVE-2019-16547
Install updates from vendor's website.
Google Compute Engine - update to 4.2.0