CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-24562

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-09-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-09-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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-59

Description

A vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan XG SP1 on Microsoft Windows may allow an attacker to create a hard link to any file on the system, which then could be manipulated to gain a privilege escalation and code execution. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. This CVE is similar, but not identical to CVE-2020-24556.

Affected configurations

• trendmicro officescan xg

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References