CVE-2022-41746 — A forced browsing vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One could allow an attacker

A forced browsing vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One could allow an attacker with access to the Apex One console on affected installations to escalate privileges and modify certain agent groupings. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to log onto the Apex One

01What is this vulnerability?

A forced browsing vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One could allow an attacker with access to the Apex One console on affected installations to escalate privileges and modify certain agent groupings. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to log onto the Apex One web console in order to exploit this vulnerability.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Trend Micro	Trend Micro Apex One	2019 (on-prem) and SaaS

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

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

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

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

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

• Published: 2022-10-10T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T12:49:43.755Z

09References

• success.trendmicro.com — https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000291645
• www.zerodayinitiative.com — https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1403/