CVE-2022-24680: Trend Micro Apex One

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A security link following local privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One, Trend Micro Apex One as a Service, Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services agents could allow a local attacker to create a mount point and leverage this for arbitrary folder deletion, leading to escalated privileges on affected installations. Please note: 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 Apex One: affected versions not specified; version 2019 only
• Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security: version 10.0 only
• Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services: affected versions not specified

Published 2022-02-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.