CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-25776
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-10-02
- 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
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.
Affected configurations
• trendmicro antivirus 2019
• trendmicro antivirus 2020
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-09924 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1236/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-09924 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1236/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry