CVE-2018-6232

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Trend Micro
Status
Trend Micro Maximum Security
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 May 2018

Summary

A buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations due to a flaw within processing of IOCTL 0x22205C by the tmnciesc.sys driver. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected Version(s)

Trend Micro Maximum Security 2018

References

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-266/
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https://esupport.trendmicro.com/en-us/home/pages/technica...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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