Trend Micro Security 2021, 2022, and 2023 (Consumer) are vulnerable to a DLL Hijacking vulnerability which could allow an attacker to use a specific executable file as an execution and/or persistence mechanism which could execute a malicious program each time the executable file is started.

Trend Micro Security 2021, 2022, and 2023 (Consumer) are vulnerable to a DLL Hijacking vulnerability which could allow an attacker to use a specific executable file as an execution and/or persistence mechanism which could execute a malicious program each time the executable file is started.

Trend Micro Security provided by Trend Micro Incorporated contains an insecure DLL loading issue (CWE-427). While the affected version of Trend Micro Security is installed and a malicious DLL is placed in a directory where some application executable resides, invoking the application executable may result in Trend Micro Security loading the malicious DLL. Rintaro Fujita of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Hiroki Hada of NTT Security (Japan) KK and Hiroki Mashiko of NTT DATA Corporation reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership.

Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Trend Micro Internet Security, Trend Micro Maximum Security und Trend Micro AntiVirus ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen.