CVE-2022-30523: Trend Micro Password Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Trend Micro Password Manager (Consumer) version 5.0.0.1266 and below is vulnerable to a Link Following Privilege Escalation Vulnerability that could allow a low privileged local attacker to delete the contents of an arbitrary folder as SYSTEM which can then be used for privilege escalation on the affected machine.

Affected products

• Trend Micro Password Manager: before 5.0.0.1270 (fixed in 5.0.0.1270)

Published 2022-05-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.