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VAR-202507-0240

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-08-27 22:57

Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.The specific flaw exists within the Regain Disk Space functionality. By creating a junction, an attacker can abuse the Platinum Host Service to delete arbitrary files. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM

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CVE-2025-52521 (GCVE-0-2025-52521)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 18:57 – Updated: 2025-07-11 03:55

Summary

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-64 - Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK)

Assigner

trendmicro

References

URL

Tags

	https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/t…
	https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Trend Micro, Inc.	Trend Micro Security (Consumer)	Affected: 17.8 , < 17.8.1476 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:maximum_security_2023:17.8:::::::*

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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VAR-202507-0240

CVE-2025-52521 (GCVE-0-2025-52521)

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