CVE-2020-27697 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Trend Micro Security 2020 consumer products, where a flaw in the installer package allows for a symlink attack. An attacker could place a malicious DLL in an unprotected location, leading to administrative privilege escalation during product installation. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this local attack requires user interaction (UI:R) but has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 16.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus\+_security_2020:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 16.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:internet_security_2020:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 16.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:maximum_security_2020:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 16.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:premium_security_2020:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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, 0.0 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.