Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security

CVE-2021-45440

What is CVE-2021-45440?

A vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security allows local attackers to escalate their privileges by exploiting an impersonation flaw. To execute this attack, an attacker must first gain access to execute low-privileged code on the affected system, leveraging this access to increase their privileges to a potentially dangerous level.

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