Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2007-1227. PoCs published by Kevin Finisterre.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a symlink vulnerability in Virex 7.7 to manipulate the root crontab file, achieving privilege escalation. It creates a backdoor and a malicious crontab entry to execute arbitrary commands as root after a system reboot.
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.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a symlink vulnerability in Virex 7.7 to manipulate the root crontab file, achieving privilege escalation. It creates a backdoor and a malicious crontab entry to execute arbitrary commands as root after a system reboot.