Description
An updater link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One agent could allow a local attacker to abuse the updater to delete an arbitrary folder, leading for a local privilege escalation 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.
Published: 2024-01-23
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-56768 An updater link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One agent could allow a local attacker to abuse the updater to delete an arbitrary folder, leading for a local privilege escalation 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.
History

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Trendmicro Apex One
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trendmicro

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-20T18:56:24.284Z

Reserved: 2023-12-26T18:39:33.449Z

Link: CVE-2023-52094

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T22:48:12.527Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-23T21:15:09.293

Modified: 2025-06-20T19:15:27.507

Link: CVE-2023-52094

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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