CVE-2021-28648 (GCVE-0-2021-28648)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-22 21:21 – Updated: 2024-08-03 21:47
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Summary
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 v10.5 and 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an improper access control privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to establish a connection that could lead to full local privilege escalation within the application. Please note that an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system to exploit this vulnerability.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Improper Access Control
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Trend Micro Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac Affected: 2021 (11), 2020 (10.5)
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