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CVE-2020-24562

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-09-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

A vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan XG SP1 on Microsoft Windows may allow an attacker to create a hard link to any file on the system, which then could be manipulated to gain a privilege escalation and code execution. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. This CVE is similar, but not identical to CVE-2020-24556.

Affected products

• Trend Micro OfficeScan: xg-sp1

References

• https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000263633
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1226/
• https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000263633
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1226/

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