CVE-2021-28648
mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.005 · 44 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-24
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 v10.5 and 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an improper access control privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to establish a connection that could lead to full local privilege escalation within the application. Please note that an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system to exploit this vulnerability.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.6–7.8
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affected products (3)
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references (7)
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- https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10293cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28648cnnvd
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-420/cnnvd
- https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10293enisa_euvd
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-420/enisa_euvd
- https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10293PatchVendor Advisorynvd
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-420/Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entrynvd
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