Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Source
- security@trendmicro.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.2
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-59
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus:2019:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "DF445523-96C6-4B40-97C2-6377920805CE"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus:2020:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "A0D2AB9D-ECFC-4BA9-B440-6DC43AE46D7A"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]