Security Advisory

CVE-2022-3421

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-10-17 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-04-21 13:47:49
Assigner Google
State PUBLISHED

Description

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