CVE-2018-18327

HIGH

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2017-2019 - Privilege Escalation via Untrusted Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A KERedirect Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer) 7.0 (2017) and above could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations. The issue results from the lack of proper validation function on 0x6eDC offset user-supplied buffer. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105757
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-1295/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (3)
trendmicro/antivirus_for_mac_2017 7.0 - 7.1.1124
trendmicro/antivirus_for_mac_2018 8.0 - 8.0.3082
trendmicro/antivirus_for_mac_2019 9.0 - 9.0.1356
Published Oct 23, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026