Local Privilege Escalation via Link-Follow in Apex One Damage Cleanup Engine
CVE-2025-49157 Published on June 17, 2025
A link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One Damage Cleanup Engine could allow a local attacker to escalation privileges 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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-49157 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Improper Privilege Management
The software does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-49157
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Affected Versions
Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Apex One:- Version 2019 (14.0) and below 14.0.0.14002 is affected.
- Version SaaS and below 14.0.14492 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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