How severe is CVE-2018-6232?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 7.8 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2018-6232?

This is classified as CWE-120, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2018-6232 - HIGH Severity | CVSS 7.8

Vulnerability Description

A buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security (Consumer) 2018 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations due to a flaw within processing of IOCTL 0x22205C by the tmnciesc.sys driver. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

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