CVE-2023-34144

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: 2023-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-426

Description

An untrusted search path vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One and Apex One as a Service security agent could allow a local attacker to escalate their privileges on affected installations. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. This is a similar, but not identical vulnerability as CVE-2023-34145.

Affected products

Trend Micro Apex One: before 14.0.12518; 2019 — fixed in 14.0.12518

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Trend Micro Apex One 14.0.12518. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://success.trendmicro.com/dcx/s/solution/000293322?language=en_US
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-835/
https://success.trendmicro.com/dcx/s/solution/000293322?language=en_US
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-835/

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