Local privilege escalation via Security Agent link following
Published Dec 31, 2024 · Updated Dec 31, 2024
Link-following privilege escalation in Trend Micro Apex One before build 13140 allows local users to gain elevated privileges on Windows. Trend Micro identifies the vulnerable locus only as the Security Agent and describes link following, without disclosing the affected file, function, or privileged operation. The same flaw affects Apex One as a Service agent versions before 14.0.14203, and exploitation requires existing low-privileged code execution.
Summary
What happened
Link-following privilege escalation in Trend Micro Apex One before build 13140 allows local users to gain elevated privileges on Windows. Trend Micro identifies the vulnerable locus only as the Security Agent and describes link following, without disclosing the affected file, function, or privileged operation. The same flaw affects Apex One as a Service agent versions before 14.0.14203, and exploitation requires existing low-privileged code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-55632
- Published
- Dec 31, 2024
- Updated
- Dec 31, 2024
- Vendor
- Trend Micro
- Product
- Trend Micro Apex One
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Dec 31, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 31, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2019 (14.0) <14.0.0.13140
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