Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2019 up to 9.0.1379 Symlink privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2019 up to 9.0.1379 (Anti-Malware Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability (Symlink). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 12/24/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-19695 since 12/09/2019. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/25/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.5

VulDB Base Score: ≈5.5
VulDB Temp Score: ≈5.5
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Class: Privilege escalation / Symlink (CWE-269)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined

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Remediation: 🔍Recommended: no mitigation known

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12/09/2019 CVE assigned
12/24/2019 +15 days Advisory disclosed
12/25/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
12/25/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateVendor: trendmicro.com
CVE: CVE-2019-19695 (🔒)Created: 12/25/2019 10:04 AM
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