Vulnerability · Published Feb 4, 2021 · Assigned by trendmicro

CVE-2021-25227

Low 3.3

In plain English

A low-severity security flaw in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 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 0.5% (higher than 42% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)3.3Low

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 57.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2021 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion vulnerability that could lead to disabling all the scanning functionality within the application. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability - i.e. the attacker must already have access to the target system (either legitimately or via another exploit).

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Trend Micro	Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac	2021 (v11)

References

https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10191 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-102/ x_refsource_MISC