A KERedirect Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer) 7.0 (2017) and…

Description

A KERedirect Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer) 7.0 (2017) and above could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations. The issue results from the lack of proper validation function on 0x6F6A offset user-supplied buffer. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.56% · top 54% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• Privilege Escalation
• CWE-476 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-476 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Trend Micro · Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer)

  • affected 7.0 (2017) and above

References (4)

• https://esupport.trendmicro.com/solution/ja-jp/1121350.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-1296/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 105757 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://esupport.trendmicro.com/en-US/home/pages/technical-support/1121296.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2018-18328](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2018-18328.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-18328)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 11:08 UTC.