CVE-2025-54948
Trend Micro Apex One OS Command Injection Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 8 September 2025). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
A vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One (on-premise) management console could allow a pre-authenticated remote attacker to upload malicious code and execute commands on affected installations.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 25.40% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 18 August 2025 · due 8 September 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Affected
- trendmicro/apex one
- Source
- security@trendmicro.com
EPSS moved from 23.9% on 5 October 2026 to 25.4% on 30 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
CISA notes
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. https://success.trendmicro.com/en-US/solution/KA-0020652 ; N/A ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54948
References
- https://success.trendmicro.com/en-US/solution/KA-0020652Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-54948US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.