A vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One on Microsoft Windows may allow an attacker to manipulate a particular product folder to disable the security temporarily, abuse a specific Windows function and attain privilege escalation. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. Please note that version 1909 (OS Build 18363.719) of Microsoft Windows 10 mitigates hard links, but previous versions are affected.

Related CVEs

CVE-2020-24557

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-rf37-cmcm-645m

Published

May 24, 2022 5:27 PM

Last Modified

February 6, 2025 9:31 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: July 3, 2025 6:26 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.