CVE-2018-6235 is an Out-of-Bounds write privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security 2018 and related products. A local attacker with low-privileged code execution can exploit a flaw in the tmnciesc.sys driver's processing of IOCTL 0x222814 to escalate privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus\+:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:internet_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:maximum_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:premium_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.