According to its self-reported version, the Trend Micro application running on the remote Windows host is Apex One prior to patch 3 b8378. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - A privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One on Microsoft Windows may allow an attacker to     create a hard link to any file on the system, which then could be manipulated to gain privilege escalation     and code execution. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target     system in order to exploit this vulnerability. Please note that version 1909 (OS Build 18363.719) of     Microsoft Windows 10 mitigates hard links, but previous versions are affected. (CVE-2020-24556,     CVE-2020-24562)

  - An improper access control privilege escalation in Trend Micro Apex One and OfficeScan XG SP1 on Microsoft     Windows may allow an attacker to manipulate a particular product folder to disable the security     temporarily, abuse a specific Windows function and attain privilege escalation. An attacker must first     obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this     vulnerability. Please note that version 1909 (OS Build 18363.719) of Microsoft Windows 10 mitigates hard     links, but previous versions are affected. (CVE-2020-24557)

  - An out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and OfficeScan XG SP1     dll may allow an attacker to manipulate it to cause an out-of-bounds read that crashes multiple processes     in the product. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target     system in order to exploit this vulnerability. (CVE-2020-24558)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version   number.

Detections

Analytics

Trend Micro Apex One Multiple Vulnerabilities (000263632)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149094

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.7 Mar 28, 2026, 12:01 PM Logic Changes (converted to VDF) Plugin Feed: 202603281201
Version 1.6 Apr 25, 2023, 11:11 PM CVSS temporal metrics (Adjust exploitability metrics for CISA KEV vulnerabilities) Plugin Feed: 202304252311