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)
EPSS: 0.005 (39.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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.
Affected products
- Trend Micro Antivirus For Mac — versions 2021 (v11)
- Trendmicro Antivirus — versions 9.0, 10.0, 10.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@trendmicro.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- security@trendmicro.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
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.