CVE-2018-6236 is a Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Trend Micro Maximum Security 2018 and related products, specifically within the tmusa driver's handling of IOCTL 0x222813. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.0 (HIGH), indicating that a local, low-privileged attacker could achieve full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, availability) with high impact, though the attack complexity is also high. Despite its severity, 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:H/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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.1 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.