CVE-2018-6232

Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.12%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMay 25
Latest updateMay 13

Description

A buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations due to a flaw within processing of IOCTL 0x22205C by the tmnciesc.sys driver. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-mfxc-mcrv-v23g: A buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileg2022-05-13
CVEList
CVE-2018-6232: A buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileg2018-05-25