CVE-2007-5829

MediumCVSS 6.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.0/10AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Nov 5, 2007
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

Related CVEs from 2007

CVE-2007-58307.8Unspecified vulnerability in the administrative interface in Avaya Messaging Storage Server (MSS) 3.1 before SP1, and Message Networking (MN CVE-2007-58315.0Directory traversal vulnerability in fileSystem.do in SSL-Explorer before 0.2.14 allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via direc CVE-2007-58327.5Unspecified vulnerability in selectLanguage.do in SSL-Explorer before 0.2.15 allows remote attackers to inject (1) headers or (2) body data CVE-2007-58333.5Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in BosDev BosMarket Business Directory System allow remote authenticated users to inject CVE-2007-58344.3Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in BosDev BosNews 4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a SCRIPT ele CVE-2007-58355.0Install.php in BosDev BosNews 4 and 5 does not require authentication for replacing an existing product installation or creating a new admin CVE-2007-58367.5SQL injection vulnerability in Amazing Flash AFCommerce allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the firstname paramete CVE-2007-58376.8GUI.pm in yarssr 0.2.2, when Gnome default URL handling is disabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacha CVE-2007-58387.2Aclient in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x before 6.8.380.0 allows local users to gain local System privileges via the "Enable key-CVE-2007-58394.6The e_hostname function in commands.c in BitchX 1.1a allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files CVE-2007-58406.8PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in starnet/themes/c-sky/main.inc.php in Fred Stuurman SyndeoCMS 2.5.01 allows remote attackers to ex CVE-2007-58416.8PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in admin/index.php in nuBoard 0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in