CVE-2007-1227: McAfee Virex

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• McAfee Virex: up to and including 7.7; version 6.2 only

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