CVE-2022-45798: Trend Micro Apex One

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A link following vulnerability in the Damage Cleanup Engine component of Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges by creating a symbolic link and abusing the service to delete a file. 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 2022-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.