CVE-2023-41179A vulnerability in the 3rd party AV uninstaller module contained in Trend Micro Apex One (on-prem and SaaS), Worry-Free Business Security…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.9% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 21 Sept 2023
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
A vulnerability in the 3rd party AV uninstaller module contained in Trend Micro Apex One (on-prem and SaaS), Worry-Free Business Security and Worry-Free Business Security Services could allow an attacker to manipulate the module to execute arbitrary commands on an affected installation. Note that an attacker must first obtain administrative console access on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
- Added
- 21 Sept 2023
- Fix due (US federal)
- 12 Oct 2023
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 21 Sept 2023.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Timeline
ID reserved
By trendmicro
- 26 days later
· 26 days later
Published
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 2 years later
· 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 8.9% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
Trend Micro, Inc. · Trend Micro Apex One
- affected 2019 (14.0) – < 14.0.0.12380
Trend Micro, Inc. · Trend Micro Apex One
- affected SaaS – < 14.0.12637
Trend Micro, Inc. · Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security
- affected 10.0 SP1 – < 10.0 SP1 Build 2495
Trend Micro, Inc. · Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services
- affected SaaS – < 6.7.3578 / 14.3.1105
References
References4
- https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000294994 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://success.trendmicro.com/jp/solution/000294706 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://jvn.jp/en/vu/JVNVU90967486/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-41179 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
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)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-45696 (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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