CVE-2025-71217 (GCVE-0-2025-71217)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-21 13:03
Modified
2026-05-21 13:53
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An origin validation error vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One (mac) agent self-protection mechanism 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. The following information is provided as informational only for CVE references, as these were addressed already via ActiveUpdate/SaaS updates in mid to late 2025 (SaaS 2507 & 2005 Yearly Release).
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Trend Micro, Inc. TrendAI Apex One (Mac) Version: NA   ≤
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