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CVE-2018-18327 — A KERedirect Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation vulnerability in

A KERedirect Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer) 7.0 (2017) and above could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations. The issue results from the lack of proper validation fun

CVSS
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EPSS
0.08% (top 76.30%)
CWE
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Published
2018-10-23T14:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T11:08:21.378Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

A KERedirect Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer) 7.0 (2017) and above could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations. The issue results from the lack of proper validation function on 0x6eDC offset user-supplied buffer. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Trend MicroTrend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer)7.0 (2017) and above

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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