CVE-2022-40143: Trend Micro Apex One

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A link following local privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service servers could allow a local attacker to abuse an insecure directory that could allow a low-privileged user to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. 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

Published 2022-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.