CVE-2025-52521 (GCVE-0-2025-52521)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-10 18:57
Modified
2025-07-11 03:55
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-64 - Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK)
Summary
Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trend Micro, Inc. | Trend Micro Security (Consumer) |
Version: 17.8 ≤ cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:maximum_security_2023:17.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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