CVE-2019-20357: Trend Micro Antivirus + Security 2019

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Persistent Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability exists in the Trend Micro Security 2020 (v160 and 2019 (v15) consumer familiy of products which could potentially allow an attacker the ability to create a malicious program to escalate privileges and attain persistence on a vulnerable system.

Affected products

• Trend Micro Antivirus + Security 2019: version 15.0 only
• Trend Micro Antivirus + Security 2020: version 16.0 only
• Trend Micro Internet Security 2019: version 15.0 only
• Trend Micro Internet Security 2020: version 16.0 only
• Trend Micro Maximum Security 2019: version 15.0 only
• Trend Micro Maximum Security 2020: version 16.0 only
• Trend Micro Premium Security 2019: version 15.0 only
• Trend Micro Premium Security 2020: version 16.0 only

Published 2020-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.