{ "document": { "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Google::Auth versions before 0.06 for Perl run a command named in an external_account credentials JSON via an ungated system call.\n\nThe Pluggable subclass reads credential_source.executable.command from the credentials JSON and runs it as `system($command)`, a single argument call that passes the whole string to /bin/sh -c. The executable's environment_variables map from the same JSON is copied into %ENV first. No opt-in gate guards the call. make_creds selects the Pluggable subclass whenever credential_source.executable is present, so the path is reached from the standard Application Default Credentials flow, including a \"type\": \"external_account\" configuration read from the file named by GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS. Configurations without credential_source.executable do not select this subclass and do not reach the call.\n\nAny caller that builds credentials from a configuration it does not fully control runs the embedded command with the privileges of the application process.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-Google-Auth-2026-66902 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-google-auth-2026-66902.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-auth-library-perl/commit/c95c77e70bec94f17e239d88050f843ea1cade95.patch", "url": "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-auth-library-perl/commit/c95c77e70bec94f17e239d88050f843ea1cade95.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/CJCOLLIER/Google-Auth-0.06/diff/CJCOLLIER/Google-Auth-0.05", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/CJCOLLIER/Google-Auth-0.06/diff/CJCOLLIER/Google-Auth-0.05" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/04/35", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/04/35" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2026-66902 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-66902" } ], "title": "Google-Auth vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-08-04T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-Google-Auth-2026-66902", "initial_release_date": "2026-08-04T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-08-04T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/<0.06", "product": { "name": "Google-Auth less than 0.06", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Google-Auth" } } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>=0.06", "product": { "name": "Google-Auth greater than or equal 0.06", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0002", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Google-Auth" } } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "Google-Auth" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-66902", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-78", "name": "Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Google::Auth versions before 0.06 for Perl run a command named in an external_account credentials JSON via an ungated system call.\n\nThe Pluggable subclass reads credential_source.executable.command from the credentials JSON and runs it as `system($command)`, a single argument call that passes the whole string to /bin/sh -c. The executable's environment_variables map from the same JSON is copied into %ENV first. No opt-in gate guards the call. make_creds selects the Pluggable subclass whenever credential_source.executable is present, so the path is reached from the standard Application Default Credentials flow, including a \"type\": \"external_account\" configuration read from the file named by GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS. Configurations without credential_source.executable do not select this subclass and do not reach the call.\n\nAny caller that builds credentials from a configuration it does not fully control runs the embedded command with the privileges of the application process.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 9.8, "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }