Link Following Privilege Escalation in Trend Micro Password Manager 5.8.0.1327
CVE-2025-52837 Published on July 10, 2025
Trend Micro Password Manager (Consumer) version 5.8.0.1327 and below is vulnerable to a Link Following Privilege Escalation Vulnerability that could allow an attacker the opportunity to abuse symbolic links and other methods to delete any file/folder and achieve privilege escalation.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-52837 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
What is a Windows symbolic link following Vulnerability?
The software, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently handle when the file is a Windows shortcut (.LNK) whose target is outside of the intended control sphere. This could allow an attacker to cause the software to operate on unauthorized files. The shortcut (file with the .lnk extension) can permit an attacker to read/write a file that they originally did not have permissions to access.
CVE-2025-52837 has been classified to as a Windows symbolic link following vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-52837
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Affected Versions
Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Password Manager:- Version 5.8 and below 5.8.0.1327 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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