Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2021 (Consumer) is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion vulnerability that could lead to disabling all the scanning functionality within the application.

Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability – i.e. the attacker must already have access to the target system (either legitimately or via another exploit).

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25227
• https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/TMKA-10191
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-102/