CVE-2022-23120

HIGH

Trend Micro Deep Security Agent < 20.0.0-3445 - Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution

Title source: llm

Description

A code injection vulnerability in Trend Micro Deep Security and Cloud One - Workload Security Agent for Linux version 20 and below could allow an attacker to escalate privileges and run arbitrary code in the context of root. Please note: an attacker must first obtain access to the target agent in an un-activated and unconfigured state in order to exploit this vulnerability.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000290104

Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.modzero.com/advisories/MZ-21-02-Trendmicro.txt

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0037

EPSS Percentile 58.9%

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-94

Status published

Products (2)

trendmicro/deep_security_agent 10.0 (32 CPE variants)

trendmicro/deep_security_agent 11.0 (18 CPE variants)

Published Jan 20, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026