CVE-2020-25776

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Trend Micro
Status
Trend Micro Antivirus For Mac (consumer)
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 October 2020

Summary

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a symbolic link privilege escalation attack where an attacker could exploit a critical file on the system to escalate their privileges. 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 Antivirus for Mac (Consumer) 2020 (v10.x)

References

https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-09924
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https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1236/
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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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