CVE-2023-52094

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jan 23, 2024
Updated
Jun 20, 2025
Reserved
Dec 26, 2023

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Description

An updater link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One agent could allow a local attacker to abuse the updater to delete an arbitrary folder, leading for a local privilege escalation 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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Trend Micro Apex OneTrend Micro, Inc.
  • 2019 (14.0) to before 14.0.0.12534Affected
Trend Micro Apex One as a ServiceTrend Micro, Inc.
  • SaaS to before 14.0.12849Affected

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