CVE-2007-5829: Symantec Norton Antivirus

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Disk Mount scanner in Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh 9.x and 10.x, Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.0 and 10.1, and Norton Internet Security for Macintosh 3.x, uses a directory with weak permissions (group writable), which allows local admin users to gain root privileges by replacing unspecified files, which are executed when a user with physical access inserts a disk and the "Show Progress During Mount Scans" option is enabled.

Affected products

• Symantec Norton Antivirus: version 9.0 only; version 9.0.1 only; version 9.0.2 only; version 9.0.3 only; version 10.0 only; version 10.1 only
• Symantec Norton Internet Security: version 3.0 only

Published 2007-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.