CVE detail
CVE-2025-71216
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).
Buzz score
Why this CVE is surfacing
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Buzz score components · mention 11.0 · diversity 10.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Why it matters now
Mention timeline
- Total mentions
- 0
- within the 30d window
- Peak daily
- 0
- highest bucket
Evidence
Source links by recency
2 source links · newest first
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-26-142/www.zerodayinitiative.com
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Exploitwww.zerodayinitiative.comMay 21, 2026, 2:16 PM - https://success.trendmicro.com/en-US/solution/KA-0022458success.trendmicro.com
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Vendor Advisorysuccess.trendmicro.comMay 21, 2026, 2:16 PM
Exploit code
Public exploit repository references
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