TI-2021-09718 Aliases CVE-2021-28648 GHSA-f6cv-7h5c-8g4r

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 v10.5 and 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an…

LOW 35Published 2021-04-22 · Updated 2024-08-03

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 v10.5 and 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an improper access control privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to establish a connection that could lead to full local privilege escalation within the application. Please note that an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system to exploit this vulnerability.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00527 44th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Trend Micro	Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac	2021 (11), 2020 (10.5)	—	No fix listed	CNA

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac VendorTrend Micro Affected 2021 (11), 2020 (10.5) Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus::::::macos::*	10.5 to before 10.5.2088; 11.0 to before 11.0.2062	Vulnerable	Trendmicro

cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* Versions 10.5 to before 10.5.2088; 11.0 to before 11.0.2062 Vulnerable ·Trendmicro

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-28648
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f6cv-7h5c-8g4r

References

Patch 1

https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10293

Advisory 1

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-420/

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Sources

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