CVE-2018-6236

published 2018-05-25

CVE-2018-6236: A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate…

Priority P4 30 high 7 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC H PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use 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 0x222813 by the tmusa 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

nvd v3.0 7.0 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.9 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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