Unrated severityCISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Sep 19, 2022· Updated Oct 21, 2025
CVE-2022-40139
CVE-2022-40139
Description
Improper validation of some components used by the rollback mechanism in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service clients could allow a Apex One server administrator to instruct affected clients to download an unverified rollback package, which could lead to remote code execution. Please note: an attacker must first obtain Apex One server administration console access in order to exploit this vulnerability.
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Affected products
3- Trend Micro/Trend Micro Apex Onev5Range: 2019 (on-prem) and SaaS
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- success.trendmicro.com/solution/000291528mitrex_refsource_MISC
News mentions
1- Trend Micro warns of Apex One zero-day exploited in the wildBleepingComputer · May 22, 2026