CVE-2007-1226: McAfee Virex

Medium severity, CVSS 4.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

McAfee VirusScan for Mac (Virex) before 7.7 patch 1 has weak permissions (0666) for /Library/Application Support/Virex/VShieldExclude.txt, which allows local users to reconfigure Virex to skip scanning of arbitrary files.

Affected products

• McAfee Virex: up to and including 7.7

Published 2007-03-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.