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CVE-2022-45798 (GCVE-0-2022-45798)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-22 21:24 – Updated: 2025-04-15 13:36
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-15 13:35 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Apex One Affected: On Premise (14.0) , < 14.0.0.11136 (semver)
Affected: SaaS (14.0) , < 14.0.11840 (semver)
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