What is it about?
Google Workspace offers a suite of applications, such as Gmail and Google Docs. Additionally, users can install third-party applications within their Google Workspace. Our research has demonstrated, for the first time, that this complex ecosystem is vulnerable to several types of attacks, including hidden attribute leakage, permission escalation, and confidential data breaches.
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Why is it important?
Our research reveals the ecosystem and permission management in Google Workspace for the first time. Our findings uncover significant vulnerabilities within the current Google Workspace system. These vulnerabilities could have severe impacts if exploited.
Perspectives
This paper makes a significant contribution because it identifies new vulnerabilities in Google Workspace with clear security implications. Overall, the reviewers enjoyed the reading of this paper and were impressed by the amount of work put into this research.
LIUHUO WAN
University of Queensland
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This page is a summary of: Is It Safe to Share Your Files? An Empirical Security Analysis of Google Workspace, May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3589334.3645697.
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