CVE-2018-15366: trend micro trend micro antivirus for mac (consumer) Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-15366 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Use After Free vulnerability in trend micro trend micro antivirus for mac (consumer). EPSS estimates a 0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 23-10-2018
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A UrlfWTPPagePtr KERedirect Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer) 7.0 (2017) and above could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

• CWE-416Use After FreeThe product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.