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CVE-2020-24557

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CVE-2020-24557

Published: Sep 1, 2020

Modified: Oct 21, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

A vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 on Microsoft Windows may allow an attacker to manipulate a particular product folder to disable the security temporarily, abuse a specific Windows function and attain privilege escalation. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. Please note that version 1909 (OS Build 18363.719) of Microsoft Windows 10 mitigates hard links, but previous versions are affected.

VendorProductVersions

Trend Micro

Trend Micro Apex One

affected
2009 (on premise), SaaS

Trend Micro

Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security

affected
10.0 SP1

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