PT-2021-17884 · Trend Micro · Trend Micro Antivirus For Mac

Wojciech Regula · Published 2021-04-15 · Updated 2021-04-29 · CVE-2021-28648

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac versions 10.5 through 11

Description: The issue is related to an improper access control privilege escalation that could allow an attacker to establish a connection, potentially leading to full local privilege escalation within the application. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system to exploit this issue.

Recommendations: For versions 10.5 and 11, update to a version that includes the fix for the improper access control privilege escalation issue to prevent potential exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-28648

ZDI-21-420

Affected Products

Trend Micro Antivirus For Mac

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-28648 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28648 · Security Note
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-420 · Security Note
• https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10293 · Vendor Advisory