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CVE-2025-54948

Exploitation: active CVSS 9.4 CRITICAL

CVSS base score: 9.4 (Critical) vendor CNA · v3.1

Score assigned by the vendor's own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); CISA's Vulnrichment program adds a score only when the CNA omits one.

Trend Micro Apex One OS Command Injection Vulnerability

Vendor: Trend Micro   Product: Apex One

Description

Trend Micro Apex One Management Console (on-premise) contains an OS command injection vulnerability that could allow a pre-authenticated remote attacker to upload malicious code and execute commands on affected installations.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 71 points from 2025-08-09, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 25.0% on 2025-10-25.

Published Applicability

CVE List v5 (CNA container) 1 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

DateSourceArticle
2026-04-15 Trend Micro ZDI ZDI-26-269: TrendAI Apex One Console Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Articles from monitored vendor research blogs and security news feeds that specifically mention this CVE. Coverage begins when feed monitoring started; earlier articles are not indexed.

Detection & Exploitation

Scan
none published
Exploit / Pen Test
none published
Network IDS/IPS
none published
Host / SIEM
none published

Blind spot. No public detection — verify by version/patch. Nothing in the monitored scanner, IDS, SIEM or offensive-tool collections references this CVE, so exposure has to be established from asset inventory and patch level rather than from a signature.

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
yes
total
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9.4 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
2025-08-05

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-78) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

KEV Catalog Status

2025-08-18
2025-09-08
Unknown

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA Vulnrichment 2025-08-05 source record →
CISA KEV 2025-08-18 source record →

Referenced in Advisories

DateAdvisoryIssuer
2025-08-18 [Updated]Alert Regarding Multiple OS Command Injection Vulnerabilities in Trend Micro Multiple Endpoint Security Products for Enterprises JPCERT/CC

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References