7.8high
CVE-2018-6232
A buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escala…
Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
7.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.5%
percentile 41%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
A buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations due to a flaw within processing of IOCTL 0x22205C by the tmnciesc.sys driver. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.48% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.0 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
Affected products
- Trend Micro Trend Micro Maximum Security
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
References
- zerodayinitiative.com /advisories/ZDI-18-266/ · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- esupport.trendmicro.com /en-us/home/pages/technical-support/1119591.aspx · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2018-6232
- NVD: CVE-2018-6232
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