Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security
CVE-2021-45440

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
CVE Published:
10 January 2022

Summary

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.

Affected Version(s)

Trend Micro Apex One 2019

Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1

References

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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