High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 10, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-45440
CVE-2021-45440
Description
A unnecessary privilege vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 (on-prem versions only) could allow a local attacker to abuse an impersonation privilege and elevate to a higher level of privileges. Please note: 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
8cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:apex_one:2019:*:*:*:-:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:apex_one:2019:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:apex_one:2019:*:*:*:saas:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:worry-free_business_security:10.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:worry-free_business_security:10.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: 10.0 SP1 (on-prem versions only)
- (no CPE)range: 10.0 SP1
- cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:worry-free_business_security_services:-:*:*:*:saas:*:*:*
- Trend Micro/Trend Micro Apex Onev5Range: 2019
Patches
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References
2- success.trendmicro.com/solution/000289996nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-016/nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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