CVE-2020-8599 on CISA KEV

Trend Micro Apex One (2019) and OfficeScan XG server contain a vulnerable EXE file that could allow a remote attacker to write arbitrary data to an arbitrary path on affected installations and bypass ROOT login. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Trend Micro Apex One (2019) and OfficeScan XG server contain a vulnerable EXE file that could allow a remote attacker to write arbitrary data to an arbitrary path on affected installations and bypass ROOT login. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• success.trendmicro.com — https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000245571
• success.trendmicro.com — https://success.trendmicro.com/jp/solution/000244253

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Trend Micro	Trend Micro OfficeScan, Trend Micro Apex One	OfficeScan XG (12.0), Apex One 2019 (14.0)

06Detection

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