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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-06-17 | Published 2025-07-10 | Updated 2026-02-26 | Assigner trendmicro




HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-64: Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK)

Product status

17.8 (semver) before 17.8.1476
affected

References

helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-18876

www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-585/

cve.org (CVE-2025-52521)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-52521)

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