- 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
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
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-264
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
- Comment
- -
- Impact
- -
- Solution
- -
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