CVE-2021-44023

published 2021-12-16

CVE-2021-44023: A link following denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the Trend Micro Security (Consumer) 2021 familiy of products could allow an attacker to abuse the PC…

Priority P4 26 high 7.1 CVSS 3.1

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

A link following denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the Trend Micro Security (Consumer) 2021 familiy of products could allow an attacker to abuse the PC Health Checkup feature of the product to create symlinks that would allow modification of files which could lead to a denial-of-service.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
trend_micro	trend_micro_security	—	—
trendmicro	antivirus_+_security_2021	<= 17.0	—
trendmicro	internet_security_2021	<= 17.0	—
trendmicro	maximum_security_2021	<= 17.0	—
trendmicro	premium_security_2021	<= 17.0	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 3.6 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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