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CVE-2025-71216

📛 CVE Title

CVE-2025-71216

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Description

A time-of-check time-of-use vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One (mac) agent cache mechanism could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The following information is provided as informational only for CVE references, as these were addressed already via ActiveUpdate/SaaS updates in mid to late 2025 (SaaS 2507 & 2005 Yearly Release).

Overview

State
PUBLISHED
Assigner (CNA)
trendmicro
CVSS severity
high
CVSS score
CVSS 7.8 / 10 7.8 7.8 / 10
CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Effective score
7.8 / 10 HIGH source: CNA overview
CWE(s)
—
Reserved
2026-02-11
Published
2026-05-21 13:02 UTC
Last updated
2026-05-21 13:58 UTC
Source
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2025/71xxx/CVE-2025-71216.json
Linked Threat
CVE-2025-71216 — CVE-2025-71216

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Layer NVD adds on top of the CNA's CVE record — published / last-modified timestamps, exploitability / impact subscores, and the FIRST.org EPSS probability that this CVE will be exploited in the wild in the next 30 days.

NVD published
2026-05-21 14:16:44 UTC
NVD last modified
2026-05-21 15:16:22 UTC
NVD CVSS v3.1
CVSS 7.8 / 10 7.8 7.8 / 10 HIGH source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitability subscore
1.8 / 10
Impact subscore
5.9 / 10
EPSS score
0.0001 (probability of exploitation in next 30 days)
EPSS percentile
1.74% vs all CVEs — higher = more likely to be exploited, as of 2026-05-24

NVD-assigned CWE(s): CWE-367 (differs from the CNA list above)

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European Union Vulnerability Database ENISA EUVD

ENISA's official EU repository for curated vulnerability intelligence. Carries a separate identifier (EUVD-YYYY-NNNN) and frequently exposes an earlier-published description + CVSS than NVD does.

EUVD ID
EUVD-2025-209916
Assigner
trendmicro
Published
May 21, 2026, 1:02:52 PM
Updated
May 21, 2026, 1:58:40 PM
EUVD base score (CVSS 3.1)
7.8 / 10
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EUVD-reported EPSS
0.0100
Vendors
Trend Micro, Inc.
Products
TrendAI Apex One (Mac) (NA <NA)
Aliases
GHSA-7vc9-vx7c-89wf

ENISA description: A time-of-check time-of-use vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One (mac) agent cache mechanism could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The following information is provided as informational only for CVE references, as these were addressed already via ActiveUpdate/SaaS updates in mid to late 2025 (SaaS 2507 & 2005 Yearly Release).

EUVD references (2)

Affected products (1)
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Trend Micro, Inc. TrendAI Apex One (Mac) NA (affected) —

Vendor references (2)

References embedded in the original CVE record by the assigning CNA.

Web references (7)

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NVD-tagged references (2)

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Remediations (19)

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Raw JSON

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2025-71216.json.

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