CVE-2025-49157 (GCVE-0-2025-49157)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-17 18:42 – Updated: 2025-06-17 20:18
VLAI
Summary
A link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One Damage Cleanup Engine could allow a local attacker to escalation 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.
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-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Apex One Affected: 2019 (14.0) , < 14.0.0.14002 (semver)
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Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Apex One as a Service Affected: SaaS , < 14.0.14492 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:apexone_saas:14.0.0.14492:ga:*:*:*:*:*:*
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