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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-7552

On the Trend Micro Threat Discovery Appliance 2.6.1062r1, directory traversal when processing a session_id cookie allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to delete arbitrary files as root.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 93.2%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 93.2%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

On the Trend Micro Threat Discovery Appliance 2.6.1062r1, directory traversal when processing a session_id cookie allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to delete arbitrary files as root. This can be used to bypass authentication or cause a DoS.

CVSS 3.0
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
93.25% probability · 100th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-22
Affected
trendmicro/threat discovery appliance
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%48%95%21 September 2026: 87.50%22 September 2026: 93.25%27 October 2026: 93.25%21 September 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 87.5% on 21 September 2026 to 93.2% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.