CVE-2007-1227
Published Mar 2, 2007
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.6
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 2.7
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-264
Evaluator
- Comment
- -
- Impact
- -
- Solution
- -
Configurations
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"matchCriteriaId": "87137051-D096-4D41-9351-F0BF4BF9503E",
"versionEndIncluding": "7.7"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virex:6.2:-:mac:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "73A33EE6-0BD1-4A5E-9EA2-425630B54A6F"
}
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"operator": "OR"
}
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