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Trend Micro Multiple Products Improper Access Control Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Remediation due
2022-05-03

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24557

Description

A vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 on Microsoft Windows may allow an attacker to manipulate a particular product folder to disable the security temporarily, abuse a specific Windows function and attain privilege escalation. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. Please note that version 1909 (OS Build 18363.719) of Microsoft Windows 10 mitigates hard links, but previous versions are affected.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC · CISA-ADP
Exploitationactive
Automatableno
Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected versions
Trend MicroTrend Micro Apex One
2009 (on premise), SaaS
Trend MicroTrend Micro Worry-Free Business Security
10.0 SP1

References

3 Links

Record Details

Published
2020-09-01
Last updated
2025-10-21
Assigner (CNA)
trendmicro
Credited to
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