FKIE_CVE-2025-71216

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-21 14:16 - Updated: 2026-06-05 15:25
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A time-of-check time-of-use vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One (mac) agent cache mechanism could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges 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. The following information is provided as informational only for CVE references, as these were addressed already via ActiveUpdate/SaaS updates in mid to late 2025 (SaaS 2507 & 2005 Yearly Release).
References
security@trendmicro.comhttps://success.trendmicro.com/en-US/solution/KA-0022458Vendor Advisory
security@trendmicro.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-26-142/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
trendmicro apex_one -
trendmicro apex_one -
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-05T15:25:00.163",
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