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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-43460 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.
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History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00087}

epss

{'score': 0.00092}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trendmicro

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:14:39.779Z

Reserved: 2022-09-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-40142

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-19T18:15:10.080

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:20:58.063

Link: CVE-2022-40142

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