{"id":"CVE-2018-12716","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-12716","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T23:57:21.975Z","title":"The API service on Google Home and Chromecast devices before mid-July 2018 does not prevent DNS rebinding attacks from reading the scan_results JSON data, which allows remote attackers to determine the physical location of most web browsers by…","description":"The API service on Google Home and Chromecast devices before mid-July 2018 does not prevent DNS rebinding attacks from reading the scan_results JSON data, which allows remote attackers to determine the physical location of most web browsers by leveraging the presence of one of these devices on its local network, extracting the scan_results bssid fields, and sending these fields in a geolocation/v1/geolocate Google Maps Geolocation API request.","published":"2018-06-25T02:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:38:14.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-200"],"affected":["google/chromecast firmware","google/home firmware"],"epss":{"score":0.00696,"percentile":0.52839,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.70%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/06/google-to-fix-location-data-leak-in-google-home-chromecast/","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://medium.com/%40brannondorsey/attacking-private-networks-from-the-internet-with-dns-rebinding-ea7098a2d325","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/vert/googles-newest-feature-find-my-home/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.wired.com/story/chromecast-roku-sonos-dns-rebinding-vulnerability/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/06/google-to-fix-location-data-leak-in-google-home-chromecast/","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://medium.com/%40brannondorsey/attacking-private-networks-from-the-internet-with-dns-rebinding-ea7098a2d325","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/vert/googles-newest-feature-find-my-home/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.wired.com/story/chromecast-roku-sonos-dns-rebinding-vulnerability/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12716","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}