CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-27014

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Published: Oct 30, 2020 | Modified: Nov 05, 2020
CVSS 3.x
6.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2020 (Consumer) contains a race condition vulnerability in the Web Threat Protection Blocklist component, that if exploited, could allow an attacker to case a kernel panic or crash.nnrnAn attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Weakness

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource’s state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Antivirus Trendmicro 2020 (including) 2020 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References