CVE-2025-52521

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-585/

https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-18876

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-10

Updated: 2025-07-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00034