CVE-2025-71216

A time-of-check time-of-use vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One (mac) agent cache mechanism could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The following information is provided as informational only for CVE references, as these were addressed already via ActiveUpdate/SaaS updates in mid to late 2025 (SaaS 2507 & 2005 Yearly Release).

CVSS v3 7.8 HIGH

7.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://success.trendmicro.com/en-US/solution/KA-0022458	Vendor Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-26-142/	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:apex_one:-::::-:macos::*
	cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:apex_one:-::::saas:macos::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-05-21 14:16

Updated : 2026-07-23 16:10

NVD link : CVE-2025-71216

Mitre link : CVE-2025-71216

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-71216

JSON object : View

Products Affected

trendmicro

apex_one

CWE

CWE-367

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

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