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TI-2026-47476 Aliases CVE-2026-66901GHSA-xxpm-5c34-x4c3

Server-side request forgery in CJCOLLIER Google::Auth

Priority LOW 39CWE-201Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-201.

Summary

Google::Auth versions before 0.09 for Perl allow server side request forgery and credential exfiltration via unvalidated URLs taken from the credentials JSON. The URLs the library requests are read from the credentials JSON, and their hosts were not checked against the universe domain before the request. For an external_account configuration, retrieve_subject_token fetched credential_source.url with headers from the same JSON, and fetch_access_token posted the subject token to token_url, then sent the STS access token it received to service_account_impersonation_url in an Authorization: Bearer header. The authorized_user, impersonated_service_account and service_account configurations posted the client secret and refresh token, the source access token, and a signed JWT assertion to their own JSON-supplied token_uri or impersonation URL. Any caller that builds credentials from a configuration it does not fully control issues those requests from the application's network position, reaching hosts the configuration names, including internal services and link-local metadata endpoints, and hands them the credentials each request carries. The service_account assertion is bound to aud, so it is not replayable against Google. Version 0.06 added a _validate_url host check to the external_account class, keyed on a universe_domain read from the same credentials JSON. Version 0.07 gated a JSON-supplied universe domain behind GOOGLE_EXTERNAL_ACCOUNT_ALLOW_CUSTOM_UNIVERSES=1, deriving the pin flag from arguments that an earlier BUILDARGS pass had already merged on the make_creds path. Version 0.08 passed the pin decision through as an explicit constructor argument and moved _validate_url to Google::Auth::Credentials, adding the call to UserRefreshCredentials and ImpersonatedServiceAccountCredentials, and 0.09 added it to ServiceAccountCredentials.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00524 44th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Google::Auth (CJCOLLIER): 0.09

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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
CJCOLLIERGoogle::Authbefore 0.090.09Patch availableCNA
  • Google::Auth VendorCJCOLLIER Affected before 0.09 Fixed in 0.09 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Google::Auth (CJCOLLIER) Fixed in 0.09

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-66901
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xxpm-5c34-x4c3

References

  • TI-2026-47477 OS command injection in CJCOLLIER Google::Auth CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8

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