CVE-2018-6236

HIGH

Trend Micro Antivirus+ < 12.0 - Privilege Escalation via tmusa Driver IOCTL

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations due to a flaw within processing of IOCTL 0x222813 by the tmusa driver. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-410/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 14.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (4)
trendmicro/antivirus\+ < 12.0
trendmicro/internet_security < 12.0
trendmicro/maximum_security < 12.0
trendmicro/premium_security < 12.0
Published May 25, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026