CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6232
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-05-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
A buffer overflow 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 0x22205C by the tmnciesc.sys driver. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• trendmicro antivirus\+ (<= 12.0)
• trendmicro internet security (<= 12.0)
• trendmicro maximum security (<= 12.0)
• trendmicro premium security (<= 12.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://esupport.trendmicro.com/en-us/home/pages/technical-support/1119591.aspx Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-266/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://esupport.trendmicro.com/en-us/home/pages/technical-support/1119591.aspx Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-266/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry