⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2021-11-03. Federal agencies required to patch by 2022-05-03. Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions..
CVE-2020-24557 — Improper Privilege Management in Micro Apex ONE
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.9%
top 16.84%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2021-11-03
Due 2022-05-03
Exploit
Exploited in wild
Active exploitation observed
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 1
KEV addedNov 3
KEV dueMay 3
Latest updateMay 24
CISA Required Action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Description
A vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 on Microsoft Windows may allow an attacker to manipulate a particular product folder to disable the security temporarily, abuse a specific Windows function and attain privilege escalation. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. Please note that version 1909 (OS Build 18363.719) of Microsoft Windows 10 mitigates hard links…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9