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
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Google
Published: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-04-21T13:47:49.429Z
Reserved: 2022-10-07T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2022-3421

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:07:06.543Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2022-10-17T20:15:09.853
Modified: 2024-11-21T07:19:28.817
Link: CVE-2022-3421

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