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CVE-2018-6232

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-05-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

A buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations due to a flaw within processing of IOCTL 0x22205C by the tmnciesc.sys driver. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Trendmicro Antivirus+: through 12.0
• Trendmicro Internet Security: through 12.0
• Trendmicro Maximum Security: through 12.0
• Trendmicro Premium Security: through 12.0

References

• https://esupport.trendmicro.com/en-us/home/pages/technical-support/1119591.aspx
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-266/
• https://esupport.trendmicro.com/en-us/home/pages/technical-support/1119591.aspx
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-266/

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