CVE-2021-3848

published 2021-10-06

CVE-2021-3848: An arbitrary file creation by privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One, Apex One as a Service, Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1, and…

Priority P4 24 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

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

An arbitrary file creation by privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One, Apex One as a Service, Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1, and Worry-Free Business Security Services could allow a local attacker to create an arbitrary file with higher privileges that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) on affected installations. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
trend_micro	trend_micro_apex_one	—	—
trend_micro	trend_micro_worry-free_business_security	—	—
trendmicro	apex_one	—	—
trendmicro	worry-free_business_security	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 2.1 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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