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CVE-2023-34147

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% 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-269

Description

An exposed dangerous function vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One and Apex One as a Service security agent could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges and write an arbitrary value to specific Trend Micro agent subkeys 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-2023-34146 and CVE-2023-34148.

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-23-833/
• https://success.trendmicro.com/dcx/s/solution/000293322?language=en_US
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-833/

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