CVE detail

CVE-2020-27697 — CVE-2020-27697

Published 2020-11-18 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor trendmicro · Product antivirus\+_security_2020 · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0056

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

44.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

Trend Micro Security 2020 (Consumer) contains a vulnerability in the installer package that could be exploited by placing a malicious DLL in a non-protected location with high privileges (symlink attack) which can lead to obtaining administrative privileges during the installation of the product.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.