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CVE-2021-42101

7.8 HIGH

An uncontrolled search path element vulnerabilities in Trend Micro Apex One and Apex One as a Service could allow a local attacker to esc...

Published: 2021-10-21 · Last updated: 2026-06-17

Severity and scoring

CVSS
7.8 HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
CWE-427

Affected products

VendorProduct
trendmicroapex_one

Description

An uncontrolled search path element vulnerabilities in Trend Micro Apex One and Apex One as a Service could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability is similar but not identical to CVE-2021-42103.

Source: NVD

References

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