A security link following local privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service agents could allow a local attacker to create a writable folder in an arbitrary location and 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.

Related CVEs

CVE-2022-40142

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-7p65-9fw3-56mr

Published

September 20, 2022 12:00 AM

Last Modified

September 22, 2022 12:00 AM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: July 2, 2025 6:26 AM

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