CVE-2023-25147 (GCVE-0-2023-25147)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-07 22:20 – Updated: 2025-03-05 20:43
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Summary
An issue in the Trend Micro Apex One agent could allow an attacker who has previously acquired administrative rights via other means to bypass the protection by using a specifically crafted DLL during a specific update process. Please note: an attacker must first obtain administrative access on the target system via another method in order to exploit this.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Apex One Affected: 2019 (14.0) , < 14.0.0.11564 (semver)
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