Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2023-09-21
Federal due date
2023-10-12
Vendor
Trend Micro
Product
Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security
EPSS
85.7th percentile (score 0.025, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41179

CISA short description

Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security contain an unspecified vulnerability in the third-party anti-virus uninstaller that could allow an attacker to manipulate the module to conduct remote code execution. An attacker must first obtain administrative console access on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.