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CVE-2021-45440

• 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: 2022-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

A unnecessary privilege vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 (on-prem versions only) could allow a local attacker to abuse an impersonation privilege and elevate to a higher level of privileges. Please note: 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 Apex One: 2019
• Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security: 10.0-sp1
• Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services: all versions

References

• https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000289996
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-016/
• https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000289996
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-016/

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