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
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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