CVE-2021-43771
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an improper access control privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to establish a connection that could lead to full local privilege escalation within the…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.32%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an improper access control privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to establish a connection that could lead to full local privilege escalation within the application. Please note that an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.32% probability · 25th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- trendmicro/antivirus
- Source
- security@trendmicro.com
References
- https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10832Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1320/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10832Vendor Advisory
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1320/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.