Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local at…

Published 16 mo ago 2025-06-17 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.8

v3.1 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.2%

percentile 8%

Public exploits

none known

Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own.

CISA SSVC assessment

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 16 mo ago 2025-06-18

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.18% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.1	7.8	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
CNA	3.1	7.8	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	3.1	7.1	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H`

Affected products

Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Internet Security (Consumer)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-64 Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK)

References

helpcenter.trendmicro.com /en-us/article/TMKA-18461
zerodayinitiative.com /advisories/ZDI-25-380/

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2025-49385
NVD: CVE-2025-49385

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Summary