Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-44023

High

Published: 16 December 2021

Published
16 December 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0021 43.9th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-44023 is a high-severity Link Following (CWE-59) vulnerability in Trendmicro Antivirus\+ Security 2021. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 43.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A link following denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the Trend Micro Security (Consumer) 2021 familiy of products could allow an attacker to abuse the PC Health Checkup feature of the product to create symlinks that would allow modification of files which…

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could lead to a denial-of-service.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

trendmicro
antivirus\+ security 2021
≤ 17.0
trendmicro
internet security 2021
≤ 17.0
trendmicro
maximum security 2021
≤ 17.0
trendmicro
premium security 2021
≤ 17.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References