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CVE-2026-34926

Trend Micro Apex One (On-Premise) Directory Traversal Vulnerability

KEVMEDIUM 6.7EPSS 12.7%

Does this matter?

Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 4 June 2026). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.

Description

A directory traversal vulnerability in the Apex One (on-premise) server could allow a pre-authenticated local attacker to modify a key table on the server to inject malicious code to deploy to agents on affected installations. This vulnerability is only exploitable on the on-premise version of Apex One and a potential attacker must have access to the Apex One Server and already obtained administrative credentials to the server via some other method to exploit this vulnerability.

CVSS 3.1
6.7 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
EPSS
12.68% probability · 96th percentile
CISA KEV
Listed 21 May 2026 · due 4 June 2026
Weakness
CWE-23
Affected
trendmicro/apex one
Source
security@trendmicro.com

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-0023430 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34926

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.