CVE-2022-3421 — Privilege escalation in Google Drive for Desktop on MacOS
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 fo…
Published: 2022-10-17 · CVSS: 5.6 · CVSS 3.1
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
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7