Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google’s Project Zero vulnerability research team, publicly disclosedcritical vulnerabilities in TrendMicro Antivirus that could be exploited to execute malicious code on the targeted system.
Ormandy took only about 30 seconds to find the first code-execution vulnerability affecting the TrendMicro antivirus program.
An attacker could exploit the security flaws to access contents of a password manager built into the TrendMicro security solution. The attackers can view hashed passwords and the plaintext Internet domains they are used for.
Original Source: Security Affairs
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