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CVE-2023-34147: Exposed dangerous function in Trend Micro Apex One
An exposed dangerous function vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One and Apex One as a Service security agent could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges and write an arbitrary value to specific Trend Micro agent subkeys on affected installations.
Published
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Affected and fixed versions
| Product / branch | Fixed in |
|---|---|
| Trend Micro Apex One 2019 | 14.0.0.12033 or later |
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What it is
An exposed dangerous function vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One and Apex One as a Service security agent could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges and write an arbitrary value to specific Trend Micro agent subkeys 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.
This is a similar, but not identical vulnerability as CVE-2023-34146 and CVE-2023-34148.
Sources
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