CVE-2025-71214

HIGH

Trend Micro Apex One (Mac) - Privilege Escalation via iCore Service Origin Validation Error

Title source: llm

Description

An origin validation error vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One (mac) agent iCore service could allow a local attacker to escalate 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. The following information is provided as informational only for CVE references, as these were addressed already via ActiveUpdate/SaaS updates in mid to late 2025 (SaaS 2507 & 2005 Yearly Release).

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

https://success.trendmicro.com/en-US/solution/KA-0022458

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-26-139/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0036

EPSS Percentile 27.4%

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-346

Status published

Products (2)

Trend Micro, Inc./TrendAI Apex One (Mac)

trendmicro/apex_one (2 CPE variants)

Published May 21, 2026

Tracked Since May 21, 2026