CVE-2025-52521

low-risk

Published 2025-07-10

Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own.

Do I need to act?

0.07% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.8/10 High

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Maximum Security 2022

Affected Vendors

Trendmicro

References (2)

Vendor Advisory https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-18876

Third Party Advisory https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-585/

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low-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal