CVE-2020-27014 Race condition in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer)
A race condition in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac allows attackers with high privileges to cause a kernel panic or system crash.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-27014?
CVE-2020-27014 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer), published on 29 Oct 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) contains a race condition vulnerability in the Web Threat Protection Blocklist component, that if exploited, could allow an attacker to case a kernel panic or crash.\n\n\r\nAn attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Weakness: CWE-367
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-27014?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Trendmicro Antivirus.
How do I fix CVE-2020-27014?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-27014 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-27014 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-27014 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-33p7-c5wh-6q6g.