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CVE-2007-1227

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.

Published

2007-03-02T22:19:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.6 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

2.7

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-264

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mcafee	virex	≤ 7.7	Yes
Application	mcafee	virex	6.2	Yes

References

http://osvdb.org/33797 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/24337 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2342 Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461485/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22744 Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017707 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0777 ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32729 ([email protected])
https://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/dynamickc.do?externalId=518722&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=518722 ([email protected])
http://osvdb.org/33797 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/24337 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2342 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461485/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22744 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017707 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0777 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32729 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/dynamickc.do?externalId=518722&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=518722 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)