High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published May 25, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-6236
CVE-2018-6236
Description
A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use 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 0x222813 by the tmusa driver. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
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Affected products
2- Range: 2018
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References
2- esupport.trendmicro.com/en-us/home/pages/technical-support/1119591.aspxnvdMitigationVendor Advisory
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-410/nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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