cve-2022-45798
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 21:24
Modified
2025-04-15 13:36
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A link following vulnerability in the Damage Cleanup Engine component of Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges by creating a symbolic link and abusing the service to delete a file. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
References
security@trendmicro.comhttps://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000291830Vendor Advisory
security@trendmicro.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1665/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000291830Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1665/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Apex One Version: On Premise (14.0)   ≤
Version: SaaS (14.0)   ≤
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