CVE-2021-28648: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 v10.5 and 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an improper access control privilege escalation vulnerability that could…

PriorityP339high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.53%

40.6th percentile

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 v10.5 and 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an improper access control privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to establish a connection that could lead to full local privilege escalation within the application. Please note that an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
trend_micro	trend_micro_antivirus_for_mac	—	—
trendmicro	antivirus	>= 10.5 < 10.5.2088	10.5.2088
trendmicro	antivirus	>= 11.0 < 11.0.2062	11.0.2062

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.6MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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