A vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 on Microsoft Windows may allow an attacker to manipulate a particular product folder to disable the security temporarily, abuse a specific Windows function and attain privilege escalation. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. Please note that version 1909 (OS Build 18363.719) of Microsoft Windows 10 mitigates hard links, but previous versions are affected.
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:apex_one:saas:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:apex_one:-:*:*:*:saas:*:*:*

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Metrics kev

{'dateAdded': '2021-11-03'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trendmicro

Published: 2020-09-01T18:55:27.000Z

Updated: 2025-10-21T23:35:37.172Z

Reserved: 2020-08-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-24557

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T15:19:07.575Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-09-01T19:15:11.870

Modified: 2025-10-22T00:17:03.593

Link: CVE-2020-24557

cve-icon Redhat

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