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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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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.