A time-of-check time-of-use vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One (mac) agent iCore service signature verification could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The following information is provided as informational only for CVE references, as these were addressed already via ActiveUpdate/SaaS updates in mid to late 2025 (SaaS 2507 & 2005 Yearly Release).
History

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Title Local Privilege Escalation via Signature Verification TOCTOU in Trend Micro Apex One Mac Agent Local Privilege Escalation via TOCTOU in Trend Micro Apex One Mac Agent

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Title Local Privilege Escalation via Signature Verification TOCTOU in Trend Micro Apex One Mac Agent

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Weaknesses CWE-367
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description A time-of-check time-of-use vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One (mac) agent iCore service signature verification could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The following information is provided as informational only for CVE references, as these were addressed already via ActiveUpdate/SaaS updates in mid to late 2025 (SaaS 2507 & 2005 Yearly Release).
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trendmicro

Published: 2026-05-21T13:02:41.347Z

Updated: 2026-05-21T14:02:05.059Z

Reserved: 2026-02-11T16:33:44.102Z

Link: CVE-2025-71215

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-21T14:01:45.774Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Undergoing Analysis

Published: 2026-05-21T14:16:44.130

Modified: 2026-05-21T15:16:21.843

Link: CVE-2025-71215

cve-icon Redhat

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