CVE-2025-52521
HIGHTrend Micro Maximum Security 2022 - Local Privilege Escalation via .LNK File Handling
Title source: llmDescription
Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory
https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-18876
Third Party Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-585/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0019
EPSS Percentile
40.5%
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-64
Status
published
Products (1)
trendmicro/maximum_security_2022
17.8
Published
Jul 10, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026