SARA / Free Tools / KEV / CVE-2023-41179

CVE-2023-41179 on CISA KEV

A vulnerability in the 3rd party AV uninstaller module contained in Trend Micro Apex One (on-prem and SaaS), Worry-Free Business Security and Worry-Free Business Security Services could allow an attacker to manipulate the module to execute arbitrary commands on an affected instal

CISA KEV — Actively Exploited

Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Vendor / Product
— / Trend Micro / Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security
Added to KEV
2023-09-21
BOD 22-01 due
2023-10-12
Ransomware use
Unknown
CVSS / EPSS
· EPSS 2.31%

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

A vulnerability in the 3rd party AV uninstaller module contained in Trend Micro Apex One (on-prem and SaaS), Worry-Free Business Security and Worry-Free Business Security Services could allow an attacker to manipulate the module to execute arbitrary commands on an affected installation.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

03Notes & references

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)

VendorProductVersions
Trend Micro, Inc.Trend Micro Apex One2019 (14.0)
Trend Micro, Inc.Trend Micro Apex OneSaaS
Trend Micro, Inc.Trend Micro WorryFree Business Security — 10.0 SP1
Trend Micro, Inc.Trend Micro WorryFree Business Security Services — SaaS

06Detection

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