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CVE-2025-52521

Status: AnalyzedHigh (7.1)—

Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

🎯 ATT&CK techniques

How this vulnerability is exploited and what the attacker gains, in MITRE ATT&CK terms.

Vector AV:L/PR:L/UI:N indica escalada local sin interacción (T1068). Atacante logra eliminar archivos privilegiados del producto (manipulación de datos/borrado T1565.001, T1529).

Inferred by our analysis agent from the official description, CVSS vector and CWE, and checked by a supervisor. May contain errors.

🛡️ ATT&CK mitigations that cover these techniques

Threat Intelligence ProgramRestrict File and Directory PermissionsRemote Data StorageExecution PreventionEncrypt Sensitive InformationApplication Isolation and Sandboxing

Affected technologies (1)

Trendmicro — Maximum Security 2022

CWEs

References

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