CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-3421

7.3 HIGH Published 2022-10-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-10-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-264, CWE-269

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

Affected configurations

• google drive (< 64.0)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References