CVE-2021-28648
HIGHTrend Micro Antivirus 10.5-10.5.2088 - Privilege Escalation via Improper Access Control
Title source: llmDescription
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 v10.5 and 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an improper access control privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to establish a connection that could lead to full local privilege escalation within the application. Please note that an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system to exploit this vulnerability.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10293
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-420/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0008
EPSS Percentile
23.1%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (1)
trendmicro/antivirus
10.5 - 10.5.2088
Published
Apr 22, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026