Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2021 v11 (Consumer) is vulnerable to an improper access control privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an attacker to establish a connection that could lead to full local privilege escalation within the application. Please note that an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43771
• https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10832
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1320/