CVE-2020-25776 — Link Following in Micro Antivirus FOR MAC

CWE-59 — Link FollowingCWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management3 documents3 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 66.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Trend Micro Antivirus FOR MACTrendmicro Antivirus
Timeline
PublishedOct 2
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a symbolic link privilege escalation attack where an attacker could exploit a critical file on the system to escalate their privileges. 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:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDtrendmicro/antivirus2019, 2020+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-r6q3-pv2x-rvpm: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a symbolic link privilege escalation attack where an attacker could exploit a critical↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-25776: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a symbolic link privilege escalation attack where an attacker could exploit a critical↗2020-10-02
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