CVE-2021-45231

Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.0%
top 87.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJan 10
Latest updateJan 11

Description

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.

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 Packages4 packages

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-c7c6-gf69-v976: A link following privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One (on-prem and SaaS) and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security (102022-01-11
CVEList
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 (102022-01-08

💥Exploits & PoCs

1
Nuclei
Hikvision IP Camera - Info Exposure
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