Low severity · published Feb 4, 2021
CVE-2021-25227
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2021 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion vulnerability that could lead to disabling all the scanning functionality within the application
3.3
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2021 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion vulnerability that could lead to disabling all the scanning functionality within the application. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability - i.e. the attacker must already have access to the target system (either legitimately or via another exploit).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 41% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
Antivirus · Trendmicro
9.0; 10.0; 10.5; 11.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25227
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25227
Patch
https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10191
Third Party Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-102/
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