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CVE-2023-52094 — An updater link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One agent could

An updater link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One agent could allow a local attacker to abuse the updater to delete an arbitrary folder, leading for a local privilege escalation on affected installations.

CVSS
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EPSS
0.06% (top 82.90%)
CWE
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Published
2024-01-23T20:40:30.228Z
Last modified
2025-06-20T18:56:24.284Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

An updater link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One agent could allow a local attacker to abuse the updater to delete an arbitrary folder, leading for a local privilege escalation on affected installations.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Trend Micro, Inc.Trend Micro Apex One2019 (14.0)
Trend Micro, Inc.Trend Micro Apex One as a ServiceSaaS

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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