CVE-2023-41179 — Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Overview
Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security contain an unspecified vulnerability in the third-party anti-virus uninstaller that could allow an attacker to manipulate the module to conduct remote code execution. An attacker must first obtain administrative console access on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2023-41179
- Vulnerability
- Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Vendor
- Trend Micro
- Affected products
- Trend Micro: Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- Published
- 2023-09-21
Remediation guidance
CVE-2023-41179 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for Trend Micro the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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