Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-25251

HighRCE

Published: 10 February 2021

Published
10 February 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0086 75.5th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-25251 is a high-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Trendmicro Antivirus\+ Security 2020. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 24.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Trend Micro Security 2020 and 2021 families of consumer products are vulnerable to a code injection vulnerability which could allow an attacker to disable the program's password protection and disable protection. An attacker must already have administrator privileges on…

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the machine to exploit this vulnerability.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

trendmicro
antivirus\+ security 2020
16.0
trendmicro
antivirus\+ security 2021
17.0
trendmicro
internet security 2020
16.0
trendmicro
internet security 2021
17.0
trendmicro
maximum security 2020
16.0
trendmicro
maximum security 2021
17.0
trendmicro
premium security 2020
16.0
trendmicro
premium security 2021
17.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-94

Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.

addresses: CWE-94

Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.

addresses: CWE-94

Validates inputs used in dynamic code generation to block injected directives.

addresses: CWE-94

Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.

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