CVE-2022-45798

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-12-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

A link following vulnerability in the Damage Cleanup Engine component of Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges by creating a symbolic link and abusing the service to delete a file. 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

References

https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000291830
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1665/
https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000291830
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1665/

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