CVE-2025-71216 (GCVE-0-2025-71216)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-21 13:02 – Updated: 2026-05-21 13:58 Exclusively Hosted Service
VLAI
Summary
A time-of-check time-of-use vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One (mac) agent cache mechanism could allow a local attacker to escalate 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. The following information is provided as informational only for CVE references, as these were addressed already via ActiveUpdate/SaaS updates in mid to late 2025 (SaaS 2507 & 2005 Yearly Release).
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Trend Micro, Inc. TrendAI Apex One (Mac) Affected: NA , < NA (semver)
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