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CVE-2021-32460 (GCVE-0-2021-32460)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-03 10:32 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:17
VLAI
Summary
The Trend Micro Maximum Security 2021 (v17) consumer product is vulnerable to an improper access control vulnerability in the installer which could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on a target machine. Please note than an attacker must already have local user privileges and access on the machine to exploit this vulnerability.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Improper Access Control
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Trend Micro Trend Micro Maxmium Security (Consumer) Affected: 2021 (v17)
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