DLL Hijacking in Google Earth Pro Windows installer

published 2020-04-21 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-29736

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
public exploits: 0; none known

Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in the windows installer of Google Earth Pro versions prior to 7.3.3 allows an attacker to insert malicious local files to execute unauthenticated remote code on the targeted system.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Google Earth Pro 7.3.3

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Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.4	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Google Earth Pro

Classification

Weakness

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element
CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

References

support.google.com /earth/answer/40901?hl=en
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-8895
NVD CVE-2020-8895

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