CVE-2020-25776: Trend Micro Antivirus

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

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a symbolic link privilege escalation attack where an attacker could exploit a critical file on the system to escalate their privileges. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Trend Micro Antivirus: version 2019 only; version 2020 only

Published 2020-10-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.