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Medium severity · published Oct 14, 2020
CVE-2020-25778
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) has a vulnerability in a specific kernel extension where an attacker could supply a kernel pointer and leak several bytes of memory
6.0
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) has a vulnerability in a specific kernel extension where an attacker could supply a kernel pointer and leak several bytes of memory. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
Antivirus · Trendmicro
2019; 2020 · source: NVD
Affected product
AN
Antivirus
Trendmicro
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25778
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25778
Patch
https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-09948
Third Party Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1241/
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