CVE-2020-8599

highpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.119 · 96 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP0 · Act now

Exploitable?

Yes · in the wild

CISA KEV

Likely / severe?

11.9% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

added 2021-11-03remediate by 2022-05-03

required action Apply updates per vendor instructions.

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Trend Micro Apex One and OfficeScan Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Trend Micro Apex One (2019) and OfficeScan XG server contain a vulnerable EXE file that could allow a remote attacker to write arbitrary data to an arbitrary path on affected installations and bypass ROOT login. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 9.8–10

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-287USLLM-inferred

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Trend Micro Trend Micro OfficeScan, Trend Micro Apex One≤ OfficeScan XG (12.0), Apex One 2019 (14.0)enisa_euvdEU
trendmicro apex one= 2019nvdUScpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:apex_one:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trendmicro officescan= xgnvdUScpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:officescan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-03-18modified 2026-06-17

references (10)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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