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A link following vulnerability in the Damage Cleanup Engine component of Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges by creating a symbolic link and abusing the service to delete a file

Published Dec 22, 2022

Description

A link following vulnerability in the Damage Cleanup Engine component of Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges by creating a symbolic link and abusing the service to delete a file. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (3)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner trendmicro
Published Dec 22, 2022
Updated Apr 15, 2025
Reserved Nov 22, 2022
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Apr 15, 2025
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner trendmicro
Published Dec 22, 2022
Updated Apr 15, 2025
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2022-48654