Your Cart Is Empty
✖No products in the cart.
– Google Workspace’s domain-wide delegation (DWD) feature is discovered to have a “severe design flaw”.
– Threat actors can exploit this flaw to escalate their privileges.
– Exploitation could result in unauthorized access to Workspace APIs without super admin privileges.
– Hackers could steal Gmail emails, extract data from Google Drive, or cause other kinds of mischief.
Heads up, Workspace users! Certain techy tinkerers with too much time on their hands have found their new playground. In a recent revelation, cybersecurity researchers have spilled the beans on a “severe design flaw” in Google Workspace’s domain-wide delegation (DWD) feature. It seems like Google might have possibly ‘DWD’ their homework this time. Now, that’s what we call a technical ‘faux pas’.
The ploy in the flaw goes as such: threat actors—those virtuality villains—can exploit this vulnerability to ‘get a promotion’, i.e., escalate their privileges. It’s not exactly what we’d call a ‘merit promotion’, but hey, who are we to judge! This flaw provides them with a VIP pass to Workspace APIs without needing super admin privileges. Talk about ease of access!
Your daily work mails might be the hackers’ next ‘g-mail’ and your Google Drive data could be their Sunday Drive. Yep, it’s as serious as it sounds. The exploitation of this flaw could lead to the theft of emails from Gmail, enabling the threat actors to engage in an impromptu game of ‘catch and steal’. Also, they could exfiltrate data from Google Drive, which has us all saying, “Drive safely, folks!”
We’ve always heard about ‘DWD’ being quite a cool feature of Google Workspace. But recent discoveries have shown that this seemingly innocuous feature could well be a door to cyber vulnerability. The severe design flaw that researchers point out could lead to privilege escalation and unauthorized access by threat actors. This could pave the way for email theft from Gmail and data exfiltration from Google Drive. You know what they say about loose ends in security—they make the best ‘loopholes’ for hackers!
Original Article: https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/design-flaw-in-google-workspace-could.html
No products in the cart.