Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One Agent Updater

Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One Agent Updater

CVE-2023-52094 · HIGH Severity

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

An updater link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One agent could allow a local attacker to abuse the updater to delete an arbitrary folder, leading for a local privilege escalation on affected installations. Please note: 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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