CVE-2025-69258 (GCVE-0-2025-69258)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-08 12:50 – Updated: 2026-01-09 04:55
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Summary
A LoadLibraryEX vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex Central could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to load an attacker-controlled DLL into a key executable, leading to execution of attacker-supplied code under the context of SYSTEM on affected installations.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-290 - Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
  • CWE-346 - Origin Validation Error
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
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Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Apex Central Affected: 2019 (14.0) , < Build 7190 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:apexcentral:2019:7190:-:*:-:windows:*:*
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