CVE-2007-5829
Symantec AntiVirus and Norton Products File System Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Nov. 5, 2007, 7:46 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 12:38 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
10.0
Exploitability Score :
1.5
Affected Products
The following products are affected by CVE-2007-5829
vulnerability.
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products
that
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affected, the information is not represented in the table below.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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CVE-2007-5829.
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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2007-5829 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://osvdb.org/40864 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/27488 Added Reference http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.11.02.html Added Reference http://securitytracker.com/id?1018889 Added Reference http://securitytracker.com/id?1018890 Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26253 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3698 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38229 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jul. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38229 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38229 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Nov. 07, 2007
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2007-5829 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2007-5829
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.05 }} 0.00%
score
0.19763
percentile