High severity · published May 25, 2018
CVE-2018-6235
An Out-of-Bounds write privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable…
7.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An Out-of-Bounds write privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations due to a flaw within processing of IOCTL 0x222814 by the tmnciesc.sys driver. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
Antivirus+ · Trendmicro
through 12.0 · source: NVD
IS
Internet Security · Trendmicro
through 12.0 · source: NVD
MS
Maximum Security · Trendmicro
through 12.0 · source: NVD
PS
Premium Security · Trendmicro
through 12.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6235
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6235
Mitigation
https://esupport.trendmicro.com/en-us/home/pages/technical-support/1119591.aspx
Third Party Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-269/
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