CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-24557
High (7.8) in Trend Micro Apex One, OfficeScan, and Worry-Free Business Security. In CISA KEV since 2021-11-03. EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- CISA KEV
- listed 2021-11-03, due 2022-05-03
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- trendmicro:apex_one
- trendmicro:worry-free_business_security