Google Cloud — Security Activity Report

Google Cloud Platform (Security Bulletins)

Generated Oct 4, 2026Cohort: 9 vendors with ≥10 CVE advisoriesMethodology ↗

CVE Disclosure Volume

Total all-time: 104 CVEs with Google Cloud advisories. Source: NVD CVE records joined with vendor advisory publish dates.

02022020230202462025982026

Severity Composition

↑ +12.2 pp

65.4% of Google Cloud's 104 CVEs are CRITICAL or HIGH severity. Industry median: 53.2%. Source: NVD CVSS v3.1.

CRITICAL 13 (12.5%)HIGH 55 (52.9%)MEDIUM 35 (33.7%)LOW 1 (1.0%)

CISA KEV Listings

↑ +1.2 pp

2 of 104 Google Cloud CVEs in the last 3 years are on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (1.9%). Industry median: 0.8%.

Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (current snapshot). KEV listing means CISA observed active in-the-wild exploitation.

Vendor Patch Velocity

↑ +46.5 days

Median time from CVE disclosure to Google Cloud advisory: 71 days (p25 24 days – p75 99 days). Industry median: 24 days.

Sample size: 48 CVE→advisory pairs over the last 3 years. Source: vendor advisory published_at minus CVE published.

Top Recurring Weakness Classes

Most-frequently mapped CWEs across Google Cloud's last 3 years of CVE disclosures. Source: NVD — CWE mapping per MITRE taxonomy.

Recent Security Advisories

Latest advisories published by Google Cloud, straight from the vendor's own feed. Severity labels are the vendor's — scales differ across vendors.

  • GCP-2026-066High
    Sep 28, 2026

    GCP-2026-066 — Published: 2026-09-28Description Description Severity Notes A Confused Deputy vulnerability was discovered in the Email Task component in…

  • GCP-2026-065Critical
    Sep 28, 2026

    GCP-2026-065 — Published: 2026-09-28Description Description Severity Notes A Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability was discovered in the…

  • GCP-2026-064Critical
    Sep 28, 2026

    GCP-2026-064 — Published: 2026-09-28Description Description Severity Notes An Incorrect Authorization vulnerability was discovered in the…

  • GCP-2026-063Critical
    Sep 16, 2026

    GCP-2026-063 — Published: 2026-09-16Description Description Severity Notes An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Google Security Operations…

  • GCP-2026-062High
    Sep 11, 2026

    GCP-2026-062 — Published: 2026-09-11Description Description Severity Notes Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Slurm that affect Cluster…

  • GCP-2026-061Medium
    Sep 9, 2026

    GCP-2026-061 — Published: 2026-09-09Description Description Severity Notes A security vulnerability (GHSA-p7v4-vr35-mj6f, CVE assignment pending) in…

  • GCP-2026-060High
    Sep 4, 2026

    GCP-2026-060 — Published: 2026-09-04Updated: 2026-09-08Description Description Severity Notes 2026-09-08 Update: Added link to the Cluster Toolkit…

  • GCP-2026-059High
    Sep 4, 2026

    GCP-2026-059 — Published: 2026-09-04Description Description Severity Notes A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in the HTTP Connector in…

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Data sources & corrections

  • NVD National Vulnerability Database (nvd.nist.gov) — CVE records + CVSS v3.1 severity
  • MITRE cvelistV5 (github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5) — CNA-published CVE timestamps
  • CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog)
  • Vendor security advisories (Red Hat RHSA, Ubuntu USN, Microsoft MSRC, Cisco PSIRT and other per-vendor feeds; the GitHub and OSV advisory databases are not used) — published_at timestamps
  • MITRE CWE taxonomy (cwe.mitre.org) — weakness class mappings

Snapshot generated Oct 4, 2026: when these counts and industry medians were computed. Vendors in the index are recomputed every 6 hours.

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