An updater link following vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One agent could allow a local attacker to abuse the updater to delete an arbitrary folder, leading for a local privilege escalation 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.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52094
• https://success.trendmicro.com/dcx/s/solution/000296151?language=en_US
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-24-028/