CVE-2020-25776
HIGHTrend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 - Privilege Escalation via Symbolic Link Attack
Title source: llmDescription
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a symbolic link privilege escalation attack where an attacker could exploit a critical file on the system to escalate their privileges. 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
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-09924
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1236/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0014
EPSS Percentile
33.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-59
Status
published
Products (2)
trendmicro/antivirus
2019
trendmicro/antivirus
2020
Published
Oct 02, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026