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CVE-2020-25776

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• 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: 2020-10-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a symbolic link privilege escalation attack where an attacker could exploit a critical file on the system to escalate their privileges. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer): 2019, 2020

References

• https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-09924
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1236/
• https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-09924
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1236/

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