CVE-2007-1227

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 0.8%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDMar 2

1st PoCFeb 28

exploitation probability

0.8%top 48% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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 products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/3386

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://osvdb.org/33797 http://secunia.com/advisories/24337 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2342 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32729 https://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/dynamickc.do?externalId=518722&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=518722 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461485/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22744 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017707 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0777