CVE-2017-5565: Trend Micro Antivirus+

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Code injection vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security 11.0 (and earlier), Internet Security 11.0 (and earlier), and Antivirus+ Security 11.0 (and earlier) allows a local attacker to bypass a self-protection mechanism, inject arbitrary code, and take full control of any Trend Micro process via a "DoubleAgent" attack. One perspective on this issue is that (1) these products do not use the Protected Processes feature, and therefore an attacker can enter an arbitrary Application Verifier Provider DLL under Image File Execution Options in the registry; (2) the self-protection mechanism is intended to block all local processes (regardless of privileges) from modifying Image File Execution Options for these products; and (3) this mechanism can be bypassed by an attacker who temporarily renames Image File Execution Options during the attack.

Affected products

• Trend Micro Antivirus+: up to and including 11.1.1005
• Trend Micro Internet Security: up to and including 11.1.1005
• Trend Micro Maximum Security: up to and including 11.1.1005
• Trend Micro Premium Security: up to and including 11.1.1005

Published 2017-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.