CVE-2025-52521

Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Analyzed - security@trendmicro.com

Published

2025-07-10

Last modified

2026-02-26

Weaknesses

CWE-64

Affected products

• Maximum Security 2022 (Trendmicro)
• Maximum Security 2023 (Trendmicro)

References

• https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-18876
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-585/