FKIE_CVE-2023-52094

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-01-23 21:15 - Updated: 2025-06-20 19:15
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
security@trendmicro.comhttps://success.trendmicro.com/dcx/s/solution/000296151?language=en_USVendor Advisory
security@trendmicro.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-24-028/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://success.trendmicro.com/dcx/s/solution/000296151?language=en_USVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-24-028/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
trendmicro apex_one *
trendmicro apex_one 2019
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  "lastModified": "2025-06-20T19:15:27.507",
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