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CVE-2007-1227
published 2007-03-02

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…

PriorityP426medium6.6CVSS 2.0
AVLACMAuSCCICAC
EXPLOIT
EPSS
0.76%
50.6th percentile
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.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
mcafeevirex<= 7.7
mcafeevirex
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