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CVE-2025-49220: trend micro, inc. trend micro apex central Use of Obsolete Function

CVSS: 9.8v3.1CriticalAnalyzed
Published 17-06-2025Last modified 26-02-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-49220 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Use of Obsolete Function vulnerability in trend micro, inc. trend micro apex central. EPSS estimates a 2.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
2.06%
0%100%
Low · -0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 17-06-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-02-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An insecure deserialization operation in Trend Micro Apex Central below version 8.0.7007 could lead to a pre-authentication remote code execution on affected installations. Note that this vulnerability is similar to CVE-2025-49219 but is in a different method.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.06%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

81%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.02 pp

From 2.07% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
2.06%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Trend micro, inc.1 product
Trendmicro1 product
  • apex_central2019 | 2019:build_3752 | 2019:build_5158 | 2019:build_6016 | 2019:build_6288 | 2019:build_6394 | 2019:build_6481 | 2019:build_6511 | 2019:build_6571 | 2019:build_6658 | 2019:build_6660 | 2019:build_6890 | 2019:build_6955

2 vendors · 2 products

References

2 links