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01 Record

CVE-2019-19695

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2019 (v9.0.1379 and below) could potentially allow an attacker to create a symbolic link to a target file and modify it.

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: trendmicro
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
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02 Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2019 (v9.0.1379 and below) could potentially allow an attacker to create a symbolic link to a target file and modify it.

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
3.15% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 87.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2019-12-24 08:25Z6 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-05 02:25Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2019-12-09
Assigning CNA
trendmicro
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
  • CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')Base
Data version
5.1
Document digest
212b9660ec73d1d8c4cfce69d74d351a6ede9ab294557a4e55183f663bccd59d

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Trend MicroTrend Micro Antivirus for Mac2019 (v9.0.1379 and below)—

06 References