Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-25776

Title: Symlink Privilege Escalation in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac

Privilege Escalation

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-25776.

CWE Category CWE-59
Published Date Oct 02, 2020
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.62%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-25776: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a symbolic link privilege escalation attack where an attacker could exploit a critical file on the system to escalate their privileges. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Impacted Vendors

T
trustix 1
J
jiangmin 1
T
trendmicro 1

Reference Links

https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-09924 https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1236/ https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-09924 https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1236/
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.8
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.2
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-25776 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.