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high 7.5

CVE-2020-24560 json

An incomplete SSL server certification validation vulnerability in the Trend Micro Security 2019 (v15) consumer family of products could al…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-17279

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An incomplete SSL server certification validation vulnerability in the Trend Micro Security 2019 (v15) consumer family of products could allow an attacker to combine this vulnerability with another attack to trick an affected client into downloading a malicious update instead of the expected one. CWE-295: Improper server certificate verification in the communication with the update server.

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Exploit prediction

1.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Trend Micro Trend Micro Security (Consumer)

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

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