CVE-2020-25776 describes a symbolic link privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer), allowing a low-privileged attacker to escalate privileges by manipulating critical system files. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability requires local access and low privileges but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2019CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus:2019:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* | ||
2020CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus:2020:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/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.