Improper Access Control Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 and 2021

Improper Access Control Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 and 2021

CVE-2021-28648 · 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 v10.5 and 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an improper access control privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to establish a connection that could lead to full local privilege escalation within the application. Please note that an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system to exploit this vulnerability.

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