CVE-2018-6235 - An Out-of-Bounds write 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 0x222814 by the tmnciesc.sys driver

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An Out-of-Bounds write 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 0x222814 by the tmnciesc.sys driver

Published May 25, 2018

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.45%

Description

An Out-of-Bounds write 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 0x222814 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 products

Vendor Trend Micro Product Trend Micro Maximum Security Default
n/a
- Version
  2018
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Trend Micro

Trend Micro Maximum Security

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
2018	affected	-

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

References (2)

https://esupport.trendmicro.com/en-us/home/pages/technical-support/1119591.aspx
x_refsource_CONFIRMMitigationVendor Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-269/
x_refsource_MISCThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

Link	Providers	Tags
https://esupport.trendmicro.com/en-us/home/pages/technical-support/1119591.aspx		x_refsource_CONFIRMMitigationVendor Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-269/		x_refsource_MISCThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner trendmicro

Published May 25, 2018

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Jan 25, 2018

Link CVE-2018-6235

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2018-6235

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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