Threats / Trend Micro / CVE-2025-54948
CVE-2025-54948
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
Trend Micro Apex One vulnerability
Trend Micro Apex One contains an OS command injection vulnerability allowing pre-authenticated remote attackers to upload malicious code and execute arbitrary commands on affected on-premise installations.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
A pre-authenticated remote attacker can inject OS commands through the Management Console to achieve code execution on vulnerable Apex One deployments. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
7 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-08-18).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.20253 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Trend Micro, Apex One. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-78 OS Command Injection — weakness family: Injection.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
02
Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
03
Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I identify that Apex One Management Console accepts file uploads without proper input validation on OS command parameters.
Business
Attackers gain direct code execution capability on security infrastructure, bypassing authentication controls.
2
Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I craft a malicious upload payload containing OS command injection sequences that execute when processed by the console.
Business
The organization's endpoint protection system becomes compromised at the management layer, losing integrity of security controls.
3
Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I execute arbitrary system commands with the privileges of the Apex One service to establish persistence and lateral movement.
Business
Attackers obtain privileged access to the protected network, enabling data exfiltration and further compromise of managed endpoints.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
05
Coverage & confidence
— what we know, and what we don’tEstablished (cited)
Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden
Disclosure & credit2
Catalogued by trendmicroCNA
Credited with finding itNo finder named in the public CVE record — the work behind this find is unattributed.