VDB-340109 · CVE-2025-69258 · Nessus 282525

Trend Micro Apex Central authentication spoofing

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Trend Micro Apex Central. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to authentication spoofing. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-69258. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Trend Micro Apex Central (version unknown). It has been rated as very critical. This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication spoofing vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-290. This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A LoadLibraryEX vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex Central could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to load an attacker-controlled DLL into a key executable, leading to execution of attacker-supplied code under the context of SYSTEM on affected installations.

The advisory is shared at success.trendmicro.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-69258 since 12/30/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/10/2026).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 282525 (Trend Micro Apex Central < Build 7190 Multiple Vulnerabilities (KA-0022071)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (282525) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-0043). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Affected

Trend Micro Apex Central

Productinfo

Vendor

Trend Micro

Name

Apex Central

License

commercial

Website

Vendor: https://www.trendmicro.com/

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

VulDB Vector: 🔒
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 9.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.6

VulDB Base Score: 9.8
VulDB Temp Score: 9.4
VulDB Vector: 🔒
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CNA Base Score: 9.8
CNA Vector (trendmicro): 🔒

CVSSv2info

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Authentication spoofing
CWE: CWE-290 / CWE-287
CAPEC: 🔒
ATT&CK: 🔒

Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined

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EPSS Percentile: 🔒

Price Prediction: 🔍
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Nessus ID: 282525
Nessus Name: Trend Micro Apex Central < Build 7190 Multiple Vulnerabilities (KA-0022071)

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
Active APT Groups: 🔍

Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔒

Timelineinfo

12/30/2025 CVE reserved
01/08/2026 +9 days Advisory disclosed
01/08/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
01/10/2026 +2 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: trendmicro.com

Advisory: success.trendmicro.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-69258 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-69258
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-340109
CERT Bund: WID-SEC-2026-0043 - Trend Micro Apex Central: Mehrere Schwachstellen

Entryinfo

Created: 01/08/2026 15:56
Updated: 01/10/2026 12:11
Changes: 01/08/2026 15:56 (61), 01/08/2026 17:20 (7), 01/10/2026 12:11 (2)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

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