Resource exhaustion in Trend Micro Antivirus For Mac
CVE-2021-25227
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).
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (39.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 39th percentile — 39.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Trend Micro Antivirus For Mac — versions 2021 (v11)
- Trendmicro Antivirus — versions 9.0, 10.0, 10.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10191 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-102/ (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2021-25227?
- CVE-2021-25227 is a low-severity vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus For Mac, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2021-02-04.
- How severe is CVE-2021-25227?
- Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.