High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 22, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-28648
CVE-2021-28648
Description
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 v10.5 and 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an improper access control privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to establish a connection that could lead to full local privilege escalation within the application. Please note that an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system to exploit this vulnerability.
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Affected products
3- Range: 2020 v10.5 and 2021 v11
- Trend Micro/Trend Micro Antivirus for Macv5Range: 2021 (11), 2020 (10.5)
Patches
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References
2- helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10293nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-420/nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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