CVE-2022-40142

published 2022-09-19

CVE-2022-40142: A security link following local privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service agents could allow a local…

Priority P3 40 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

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

A security link following local privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service agents could allow a local attacker to create a writable folder in an arbitrary location and escalate privileges 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

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
trend_micro	trend_micro_apex_one	—	—
trendmicro	apex_one	—	—

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