CVE-2022-23120: Trend Micro Deep Security Agent

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 6.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A code injection vulnerability in Trend Micro Deep Security and Cloud One - Workload Security Agent for Linux version 20 and below could allow an attacker to escalate privileges and run arbitrary code in the context of root. Please note: an attacker must first obtain access to the target agent in an un-activated and unconfigured state in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Trend Micro Deep Security Agent: from 20.0, before 20.0.0-3445 (fixed in 20.0.0-3445); version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only; version 12.0 only

Published 2022-01-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.