cvelistv5 - CVE-2021-44023

CVE-2021-44023

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-12-16 02:28

Modified

2024-08-04 04:10

Severity ?

Summary

A link following denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the Trend Micro Security (Consumer) 2021 familiy of products could allow an attacker to abuse the PC Health Checkup feature of the product to create symlinks that would allow modification of files which could lead to a denial-of-service.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	security@trendmicro.com	https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-10867	Vendor Advisory
	security@trendmicro.com	https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1536/	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Trend Micro	Trend Micro Security (Consumer)

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