CVE-2019-14688: Trend Micro Control Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Trend Micro has repackaged installers for several Trend Micro products that were found to utilize a version of an install package that had a DLL hijack vulnerability that could be exploited during a new product installation. The vulnerability was found to ONLY be exploitable during an initial product installation by an authorized user. The attacker must convince the target to download malicious DLL locally which must be present when the installer is run.

Affected products

• Trend Micro Control Manager: version 7.0 only
• Trend Micro Endpoint Sensor: version 1.6 only
• Trend Micro Im Security: version 1.6.5 only
• Trend Micro Mobile Security: version 9.8 only
• Trend Micro OfficeScan: version xg only
• Trend Micro Scanmail: version 14.0 only
• Trend Micro Security: version 2019 only
• Trend Micro Serverprotect: version 5.8 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2020-02-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.