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CVE-2022-27883

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-04-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

A link following vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 11.5 could allow an attacker to create a specially-crafted file as a symlink that can lead to privilege escalation. Please note that an attacker must at least have low-level privileges on the system to attempt to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Trendmicro Antivirus For Mac: through 11.5

References

• https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-10978
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-546/
• https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-10978
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-546/

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