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CVE-2018-18327

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-18327 is a Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer) versions 7.0 and above, stemming from an untrusted pointer dereference. This allows a local attacker with low-privileged code execution to escalate privileges due to improper validation of user-supplied buffers. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), successful exploitation could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 7.0, <= 7.1.1124CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus_for_mac_2017:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0, <= 8.0.3082CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus_for_mac_2018:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.0, <= 9.0.1356CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus_for_mac_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

esupport.trendmicro.com / en-US/home/pages/technical-support/1121296.aspx
Vendor Advisory
esupport.trendmicro.com / solution/ja-jp/1121350.aspx
Vendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-18-1295
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/105757
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry