8.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-22538

Published: 31/03/2021 Updated: 06/04/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 578
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

A privilege escalation vulnerability impacting the Google Exposure Notification Verification Server (versions before 0.23.1), allows an attacker who (1) has UserWrite permissions and (2) is using a carefully crafted request or malicious proxy, to create another user with higher privileges than their own. This occurs due to insufficient checks on the allowed set of permissions. The new user creation event would be captured in the Event Log.

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google exposure notifications verification server