vulnerability

Trend Micro Apex One: CVE-2022-40142: Improper Privilege Management

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 13, 2022
Added
Apr 29, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

A security link following local privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service agents could allow a local attacker to create a writable folder in an arbitrary location and escalate privileges on affected installations. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Solution

trend-micro-apex-one-upgrade-latest
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