Symbolic Link Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer)

Symbolic Link Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer)

CVE-2020-25776 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a symbolic link privilege escalation attack where an attacker could exploit a critical file on the system to escalate their privileges. 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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