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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2019-18188 – Trend Micro Apex One Arbitrary File Upload with Command Injection Vulnerability

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Affected versions of Apex One could be exploited by an attacker utilizing a command injection vulnerability to extract files from an arbitrary zip file to a specific folder on the Apex One server, which could potentially lead to remote code execution (RCE). The remote process execution is bound to the IUSR account, which has restricted permission and is unable to make major system changes. An attempted attack requires user authentication.

Impact

Command injection vulnerability

Affected Vendors

Trend Micro

Affected Products

Apex One (on premise) 2019 (before build 2049)

Remediation

Trend micro has released CP 2049 to address issue.

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