CVE-2021-45440

A unnecessary privilege vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 (on-prem versions only) could allow a local attacker to abuse an impersonation privilege and elevate to a higher level of privileges. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

• CWE-269

• https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000289996Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-016/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000289996Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-016/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Published

Jan 10, 2022

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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