CVE-2020-8468
8.8, high Known exploitedTrend Micro Multiple Products Content Validation Escape Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 8.8, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 6% higher than 93.3% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 18 Mar 20206 years ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 3 Nov 2021. US federal agencies had to remediate by 3 May 2022, a deadline that has passed.
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Description
Trend Micro Apex One (2019), OfficeScan XG and Worry-Free Business Security (9.0, 9.5, 10.0) agents are affected by a content validation escape vulnerability which could allow an attacker to manipulate certain agent client components. An attempted attack requires user authentication.
Details
- Vendor
- Trend Micro
- Product
- Trend Micro OfficeScan, Trend Micro Apex One, Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security (WFBS)
- Weakness
- CWE-74 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 17 Jun 2026
- Assigner
- security@trendmicro.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 5
Patches and fixes 4
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
Other Trend Micro CVEs
Every Trend Micro CVE we holdSame vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.
- CVE-2026-34926 Trend Micro Apex One (On-Premise) Directory Traversal Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.5% 6.7, medium
- CVE-2025-54948 Trend Micro Apex One OS Command Injection Vulnerability KEV EPSS 24% 9.8, critical
- CVE-2023-41179 Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security Remote Code Execution Vulnerability KEV EPSS 4% 7.2, high
- CVE-2022-40139 Trend Micro Apex One and Apex One as a Service Improper Validation Vulnerability KEV EPSS 3% 7.2, high
- CVE-2022-26871 Trend Micro Apex Central Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability KEV EPSS 19% 9.8, critical
- CVE-2021-36741 Trend Micro Multiple Products Improper Input Validation Vulnerability KEV EPSS 5% 8.8, high
- CVE-2021-36742 Trend Micro Multiple Products Improper Input Validation Vulnerability KEV EPSS 1% 7.8, high
- CVE-2020-24557 Trend Micro Multiple Products Improper Access Control Vulnerability KEV EPSS 3% 7.8, high
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.