Security Bulletin: Trend Micro Security (Consumer) 2018 Driver Vulnerability

Release Date: July 5, 2018

CVE Vulnerability Identifiers: CVE-2018-3608

Platform: Windows

CVSS 3.0 Scores: 7.2

Severity Ratings: High

Summary

Trend Micro has released fixes for the Trend Micro Security 2018 (version 12.0) family of consumer products which resolve a vulnerability in a certain driver that if exploited, could allow an attacker to inject malicious code into processes on a vulnerable system.

Affected versions

Solution

Trend Micro has addressed these vulnerabilities via a patch that is available now through the product’s automatic ActiveUpdate feature for all versions of Trend Micro Security 2018 (version 12) listed above. Customers who have at least version 12.0.1226 (as of July 5th) will already have the necessary patch applied.

Vulnerability Details

This patch includes mitigations for the following vulnerabilities:

• CVE-2018-3608: A vulnerability exists in the Trend Micro User-Mode Hooking (UMH) driver in which, if exploited, would allow an attacker to create a specially crafted packet that could alter a vulnerable system in such a way that malicious code could be injected into other processes.

Trend Micro has received no reports nor is aware of any actual attacks against the affected products related to this vulnerability at this time.

Mitigating Factors

Exploiting these types of vulnerabilities require that an attacker has access (physical or remote) to a vulnerable machine.

Even though an exploit may require several specific conditions to be met, Trend Micro strongly encourages customers to upgrade to the latest build as soon as possible.

Acknowledgement

Trend Micro would like to thank the following individuals and/or organizations for responsibly disclosing these issues and working with Trend Micro to help protect our customers:

• Zhiyuan Wang of Chengdu Qihoo360 Tech Co. Ltd