Time-of-Check Time-of-Use Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security 2018

CVE-2018-6236 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations due to a flaw within processing of IOCTL 0x222813 by the tmusa driver. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

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