CVE-2018-6236: trend micro trend micro maximum security Race Condition

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-6236 is a high (CVSS 7.0) Race Condition vulnerability in trend micro trend micro maximum security. EPSS estimates a 0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 25-05-2018
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations due to a flaw within processing of IOCTL 0x222813 by the tmusa driver. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

• CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.