CVE-2020-25776

HIGH

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 - Privilege Escalation via Symbolic Link Attack

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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
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