CVE-2023-47201

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-269

Description

A plug-in manager origin validation vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One security agent could allow a local attacker to escalate 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 vulnerability is similar to, but not identical to, CVE-2023-47200.

Affected products

Trend Micro Apex One: before 14.0.12737; 2019 — fixed in 14.0.12737

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Trend Micro Apex One 14.0.12737. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://success.trendmicro.com/dcx/s/solution/000295652?language=en_US
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1613/
https://success.trendmicro.com/dcx/s/solution/000295652?language=en_US
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1613/

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