Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a symbolic link privilege escalation attack where an attacker could exploit a critical file on the system to escalate their privileges. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a symbolic link privilege escalation attack where an attacker could exploit a critical file on the system to escalate their privileges. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Antivirus for Mac provided by Trend Micro Incorporated contain a symbolic link privilege escalation vulnerability (CWE-61). Trend Micro Incorporated reported this vulnerability to JPCERT/CC to notify users of its solution through JVN. JPCERT/CC and Trend Micro Incorporated coordinated under the Information Security Early Warning Partnership.