CVE-2023-52094 (GCVE-0-2023-52094)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-23 20:40 – Updated: 2025-06-20 18:56
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
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Vendor Product Version
Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Apex One Affected: 2019 (14.0) , < 14.0.0.12534 (semver)
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