CVE-2021-32460

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The Trend Micro Maximum Security 2021 (v17) consumer product is vulnerable to an improper access control vulnerability in the installer which could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on a target machine. Please note than an attacker must already have local user privileges and access on the machine to exploit this vulnerability.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-732

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Trend Micro	Trend Micro Maxmium Security (Consumer)	2021 (v17)

References

https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10336Vendor Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-603/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10336Vendor Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-603/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Timeline

Published: Jun 3, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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