CVE-2025-52521

HIGHNVD 7.87.8—Trending — 3 sources updated this week

7.8

Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own.

CVSS v3: 7.8
EG Score: 7.8(medium)
EPSS: 40.7%
KEV: Not listed

Published

July 10, 2025

Last Modified

August 26, 2025

References (2)

security@trendmicrohttps://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-18876
security@trendmicrohttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-585/

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

CWE-64

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 11× in last 30d)

Every time one of our enrichment pipelines (NVD, MITRE cvelistV5, EPSS, CISA KEV, GHSA, OSV, vendor advisories) ran against this CVE. Most recent first.

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2026-05-30 02:03 UTCEG score recompute
2026-05-30 02:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-52521?

CVE-2025-52521 is a high vulnerability published on July 10, 2025. Trend Micro Security 17.8 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a link following local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to unintentionally delete privileged Trend Micro files including its own.

When was CVE-2025-52521 disclosed?

CVE-2025-52521 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 10, 2025, with the most recent update on August 26, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.

Is CVE-2025-52521 actively exploited?

CVE-2025-52521 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 40.7% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.

What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-52521?

CVE-2025-52521 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).

How do I remediate CVE-2025-52521?

Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2025-52521, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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CVE-2025-52521

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