CVE-2018-3608 Code injection in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer)

What is CVE-2018-3608?

CVE-2018-3608 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Trendmicro Officescan, published on 6 Jul 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security's (Consumer) 2018 (versions 12.0.1191 and below) User-Mode Hooking (UMH) driver could allow an attacker to create a specially crafted packet that could alter a vulnerable system in such a way that malicious code could be injected into other processes.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-3608?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Trendmicro Antivirus \+ Security, Trendmicro Internet Security, Trendmicro Maximum Security, Trendmicro Officescan, Trendmicro Officescan Monthly, Trendmicro Premium Security.

How do I fix CVE-2018-3608?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-3608 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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Is CVE-2018-3608 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-3608 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in Trendmicro Officescan

• CVE-2018-18333 Privilege escalation in Trend Micro Security (Consumer) High 7.8
• CVE-2018-10513 Deserialization in Trend Micro Security (Consumer) High 7.8
• CVE-2018-10514 Privilege escalation in Trend Micro Security (Consumer) High 7.8
• CVE-2018-15363 Memory corruption in Trend Micro Security (Consumer) High 7.8

All Trendmicro Officescan vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4wvj-8v7h-xg58.