Vulnerability · Published Jul 15, 2020 · Assigned by trendmicro

CVE-2020-15602

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Trend Micro Security (Consumer) from Trend Micro. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 65% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 35.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An untrusted search path remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Trend Micro Secuity 2020 (v16.0.0.1146 and below) consumer family of products could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. As the Trend Micro installer tries to load DLL files from its current directory, an arbitrary DLL could also be loaded with the same privileges as the installer if run as Administrator. User interaction is required to exploit the vulnerbaility in that the target must open a malicious directory or device.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Trend Micro	Trend Micro Security (Consumer)	2020 (v16)

References

https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-09644 x_refsource_MISC