Improper certificate validation in GARU Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Google
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · Low
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-295.
Summary
Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Google versions before 0.08 for Perl have TLS verification disabled. The default user agent is initialised with SSL_verify_mode explicitly disabled. An attacker with network man-in-the-middle (MITM) capability between the Dancer application and googleapis.com can intercept the OAuth2 token exchange and userinfo fetch, return a forged access_token and user profile, and be logged in to the Dancer application as any Google user.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Google (GARU) Fixed in 0.08
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-13410
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mwgc-xrww-2crj
References
Patch 2
Sources
- CVE-2026-13410 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-13410 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-mwgc-xrww-2crj · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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