CVE-2025-71212: Trend Micro Apex One

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

A link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One scan engine could allow a local attacker to escalate 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: before 14.0.0.14136 (fixed in 14.0.0.14136); before 14.0.20315 (fixed in 14.0.20315)

Published 2026-05-21. Last modified 2026-07-23.