CVE-2005-1107 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Internet Security Suite 2005, stemming from insecure default Access Control Lists (ACLs) on installed files. This allows local attackers to modify critical files, potentially gaining elevated privileges or disabling security protections. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), it indicates high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring local access and low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2005CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:internet_security_suite:2005:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.