CVE-2022-45798 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2022-45798

A link following vulnerability in the Damage Cleanup Engine component...

Vulnerability Description

A link following vulnerability in the Damage Cleanup Engine component of Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges by creating a symbolic link and abusing the service to delete a file. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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High 7.8

Affected Vendor

Trend Micro, Inc.

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Affected Software

Trend Micro Apex One
Vulnerable Versions:
On Premise (14.0), SaaS (14.0)

Timeline

Official Publish: December 22nd, 2022
Last Modified: April 15th, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.