CVE-2025-49157

HIGH

Trendmicro Apex One < 14.0.14492 - Symlink Following

Title source: rule

Description

A link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One Damage Cleanup Engine could allow a local attacker to escalation privileges on affected installations. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

References (2)

[Vendor Advisory] https://success.trendmicro.com/en-US/solution/KA-0019917

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-364/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0015

EPSS Percentile 34.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-269 CWE-59

Status published

Products (2)

trendmicro/apex_one < 14.0.14492

trendmicro/apex_one 14.0.0.12994 - 14.0.0.14002

Published Jun 17, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026