CVE-2021-28648Improper Privilege Management in Antivirus

Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 76.70%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedApr 22
Latest updateMay 24

Description

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.

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/antivirus10.510.5.2088+1
CVEListV5trend_micro/trend_micro_antivirus_for_mac2021 (11), 2020 (10.5)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-f6cv-7h5c-8g4r: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 v102022-05-24
CVEList
CVE-2021-28648: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 v102021-04-22
CVE-2021-28648 — Improper Privilege Management | cvebase