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CVE-2025-71212

7.8 HIGH

A link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One scan engine could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected in...

Published: 2026-05-21 · Last updated: 2026-05-21

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-59

Description

A link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One scan engine could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Source: NVD

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