Trend Micro Deep Security up to 20.0 os command injection

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A vulnerability has been found in Trend Micro Deep Security and classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in os command injection. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-51503. Access to the local network is required for this attack. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Trend Micro Deep Security. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A security agent manual scan command injection vulnerability in the Trend Micro Deep Security 20 Agent could allow an attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code on an affected machine. In certain circumstances, attackers that have legitimate access to the domain may be able to remotely inject commands to other machines in the same domain. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability locally and must have domain user privileges to affect other machines.

It is possible to read the advisory at success.trendmicro.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-51503 since 10/28/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The attack needs to be done within the local network. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/05/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 20.0.1-21510 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Trend Micro

Name

• Deep Security

Version

• 10
• 10.0
• 10.0 Update 21
• 11
• 11.0
• 11.0 Update 13
• 12
• 12.0
• 12.0 Update 1
• 20.0

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.trendmicro.com/

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