CVE-2020-24562: Trend Micro OfficeScan

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan XG SP1 on Microsoft Windows may allow an attacker to create a hard link to any file on the system, which then could be manipulated to gain a privilege escalation and code execution. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. This CVE is similar, but not identical to CVE-2020-24556.

Affected products

• Trend Micro OfficeScan: version xg only

Published 2020-09-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.