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Severity
Medium
Analysis Summary
CVE-2020-25776
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error in the iTISPlugin module. By creating a symbolic link, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute code in the context of root.
Impact
Privilege escalation
Affected Vendors
TrendMicro
Affected Products
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 9.0.1379
Remediation
Refer to Trend Micro advisory for the complete list of affected products and their respective patches.