CWE-64

Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK)

The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently handle when the file is a Windows shortcut (.LNK) whose target is outside of the intended control sphere. This could allow an attacker to cause the product to operate on unauthorized files.

CVE-2025-52521 (GCVE-0-2025-52521)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-10 18:57
Modified
2025-07-11 03:55
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-64 - Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK)
Summary
Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own.
References
https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-18876
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-585/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Security (Consumer) Version: 17.8   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:maximum_security_2023:17.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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CVE-2025-52837 (GCVE-0-2025-52837)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-10 18:57
Modified
2025-07-11 03:55
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-64 - Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK)
Summary
Trend Micro Password Manager (Consumer) version 5.8.0.1327 and below is vulnerable to a Link Following Privilege Escalation Vulnerability that could allow an attacker the opportunity to abuse symbolic links and other methods to delete any file/folder and achieve privilege escalation.
References
https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-12946
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-586/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Password Manager Version: 5.8   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:password_manager:5.8.0.1330:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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CVE-2025-53503 (GCVE-0-2025-53503)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-10 18:59
Modified
2025-07-10 19:05
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-64 - Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK)
Summary
Trend Micro Cleaner One Pro is vulnerable to a Privilege Escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own.
References
https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-12951
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Cleaner One Pro Version: 6.8   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:cleaner_pro_one:6.8.333:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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CVE-2025-7376 (GCVE-0-2025-7376)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-06 06:28
Modified
2025-08-07 14:11
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-64 - Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK)
Summary
Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK) vulnerability in multiple processes of Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS64 all versions, Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS version 11.00, Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS64 all versions, Mitsubishi Electric MC Works64 all versions, and Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS version 11.00 allows a local authenticated attacker to make an unauthorized write to arbitrary files, by creating a symbolic link from a file used as a write destination by the processes of the affected products to a target file. This could allow the attacker to destroy the file on a PC with the affected products installed, resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on the PC if the destroyed file is necessary for the operation of the PC.
References
https://jvn.jp/vu/JVNVU96364629government-resource
https://www.mitsubishielectric.com/psirt/vulnerability/pdf/2025-009_en.pdfvendor-advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-217-01government-resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GENESIS64 Version: all versions
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Mitigation ID: MIT-48.1

Phase: Architecture and Design

Strategy: Separation of Privilege

Description:

  • Follow the principle of least privilege when assigning access rights to entities in a software system.
  • Denying access to a file can prevent an attacker from replacing that file with a link to a sensitive file. Ensure good compartmentalization in the system to provide protected areas that can be trusted.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.

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