CVE-2025-54948 is a critical vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One (on-premise) management console, allowing pre-authenticated remote attackers to upload malicious code and execute commands. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and complete compromise potential (confidentiality, integrity, availability). This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog and extensive media coverage, despite a lack of public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion is high, indicating significant industry attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2019CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:apex_one:2019:*:*:*:on-premises:windows:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
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.