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1 vulnerability found for Drive for Desktop MacOS by Google LLC
CVE-2022-3421 (GCVE-0-2022-3421)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-17 00:00
Modified
2025-04-21 13:47
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Summary
An attacker can pre-create the `/Applications/Google\ Drive.app/Contents/MacOS` directory which is expected to be owned by root to be owned by a non-root user. When the Drive for Desktop installer is run for the first time, it will place a binary in that directory with execute permissions and set its setuid bit. Since the attacker owns the directory, the attacker can replace the binary with a symlink, causing the installer to set the setuid bit on the symlink. When the symlink is executed, it will run with root permissions. We recommend upgrading past version 64.0
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google LLC | Drive for Desktop MacOS |
Version: unspecified < 64.0 |
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