CVE-2008-3866
The Trend Micro Personal Firewall service (aka TmPfw.exe) in Trend Micro Network Security Component (NSC) modules, as used in Trend Micro…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.40%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 65% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Trend Micro Personal Firewall service (aka TmPfw.exe) in Trend Micro Network Security Component (NSC) modules, as used in Trend Micro OfficeScan 8.0 SP1 Patch 1 and Internet Security 2007 and 2008 17.0.1224, relies on client-side password protection implemented in the configuration GUI, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and change firewall settings by using a modified client to send crafted packets.
Timeline
ID reserved
By flexera
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 65% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-43/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/documentation/readme/OSCE8.0_SP1_Patch1_CriticalPatch_3191_Readme.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1021616 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- nsc-tmpfw-security-bypass(48108) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1021617 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 33358 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0191 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 33609 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31160 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-3852 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-3866)Record last updated .