CVE-2018-6235: An Out-of-Bounds write privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges…

PriorityP339high7.8CVSS 3.0

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.47%

37.2th percentile

An Out-of-Bounds write 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 0x222814 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.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
trend_micro	trend_micro_maximum_security	—	—
trendmicro	antivirus	<= 12.0	—
trendmicro	internet_security	<= 12.0	—
trendmicro	maximum_security	<= 12.0	—
trendmicro	premium_security	<= 12.0	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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