CVE-2007-1227

medium Trellix
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.6
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 69% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: March 2, 2007 (7012 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Trellix
Source: NVD

Description

VShieldCheck in McAfee VirusScan for Mac (Virex) before 7.7 patch 1 allow local users to change permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /Library/Application Support/Virex/VShieldExclude.txt, as demonstrated by symlinking to the root crontab file to execute arbitrary commands.

CWE

CWE-264

Affected Products

mcafee virex

References

🔗 osvdb.org 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com