CVE-2007-1227

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

02/03/2007

Last modified:

09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete