CVE-2025-49158

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: 2025-06-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-427

Description

An uncontrolled search path vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One security agent could allow a local attacker to escalation 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.

Affected products

Trend Micro Apex One: before 14.0.14492; from 14.0.0.12994 before 14.0.0.14002 — fixed in 14.0.0.14002, 14.0.14492

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Trend Micro Apex One 14.0.0.14002, 14.0.14492. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://success.trendmicro.com/en-US/solution/KA-0019917
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-365/

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