Race condition in Trend Micro Internet Security - #VU7210
Published: June 27, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7210
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists due to a race condition in 'tmusa.sys' in processing IOCTL 0x222813. A local attacker can run a specially crafted application to modify a field used by the kernel and gain system privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in privilege escalation.
The weakness exists due to a race condition in 'tmusa.sys' in processing IOCTL 0x222813. A local attacker can run a specially crafted application to modify a field used by the kernel and gain system privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in privilege escalation.
Affected software
Trend Micro Internet Security
Remediation
Update to version 11.1.1045.