CVE-2021-45231: A link following privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One (on-prem and SaaS) and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security (10.0 SP1 and…

PriorityP342high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.64%

46.2th percentile

A link following privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One (on-prem and SaaS) and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security (10.0 SP1 and Services) could allow a local attacker to create a specially crafted file with arbitrary content which could grant local privilege escalation on the affected system. 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

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

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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