CVE-2021-25227 (GCVE-0-2021-25227)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-04 19:36 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:56
VLAI
Summary
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).
Severity
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • Memory Exhaustion DOS
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Trend Micro Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac Affected: 2021 (v11)
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