CVE-2025-52521: Trend Micro Maximum Security 2022

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own.

Affected products

• Trend Micro Maximum Security 2022: version 17.8 only

Published 2025-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.