CVE-2021-45440

published 2022-01-10

CVE-2021-45440: A unnecessary privilege vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 (on-prem versions only) could allow a local…

Priority P3 39 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

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

A unnecessary privilege vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 (on-prem versions only) could allow a local attacker to abuse an impersonation privilege and elevate to a higher level of privileges. 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 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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