Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 10, 2025· Updated Feb 26, 2026

CVE-2025-52521

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.

Affected products

Trend Micro, Inc./Trend Micro Security (Consumer)v5
cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:maximum_security_2023:17.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: 17.8
Trend Micro/Mobile Securityllm-fuzzy
Range: = 17.8

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-18876mitre
www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-585/mitre

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