CVE-2020-8607 Privilege escalation in Trend Micro Anti-Threat Toolkit (ATTK)
An attacker with administrator privileges can exploit a rootkit protection driver to achieve kernel-mode code execution or cause a 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-2020-8607?
CVE-2020-8607 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Trendmicro Apex One, published on 5 Aug 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An input validation vulnerability found in multiple Trend Micro products utilizing a particular version of a specific rootkit protection driver could allow an attacker in user-mode with administrator permissions to abuse the driver to modify a kernel address that may cause a system crash or potentially lead to code execution in kernel mode. An attacker must already have obtained administrator access on the target machine (either legitimately or via a separate unrelated attack) to exploit this vulnerability.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-8607?
It affects 12 products.
Products include Trendmicro Antivirus Toolkit, Trendmicro Apex One, Trendmicro Deep Security, Trendmicro Officescan, Trendmicro Officescan Business Security, Trendmicro Officescan Business Security Service and 6 more.
How do I fix CVE-2020-8607?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-8607 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-8607 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8607 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cjwf-2r6c-6h5f.