CVE-2020-25776

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - security@trendmicro.com

Published

2020-10-02

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Trend Micro Antivirus For Mac Consumer (Trend Micro)
• Antivirus (Trendmicro)

References

• https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-09924
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1236/