Denial of service via symbolic-link file deletion
Published Jun 10, 2024 · Updated Mar 27, 2025
Link following in Trend Micro Apex One Security Agent allows local users to cause denial of service by inducing file deletion. The Damage Cleanup Engine, running inside the Common Client Real-time Scan Service, follows an attacker-created symbolic link and deletes the linked file. Low-privileged code execution on an affected Windows endpoint is required, and the resulting file deletion can interrupt the system.
Summary
What happened
Link following in Trend Micro Apex One Security Agent allows local users to cause denial of service by inducing file deletion. The Damage Cleanup Engine, running inside the Common Client Real-time Scan Service, follows an attacker-created symbolic link and deletes the linked file. Low-privileged code execution on an affected Windows endpoint is required, and the resulting file deletion can interrupt the system.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-36306
- Published
- Jun 10, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 27, 2025
- Vendor
- Trend Micro
- Product
- Trend Micro Apex One
- Classifications
- CWE-59, T1489
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jun 10, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 27, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2019 (14.0) <14.0.0.12980
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