🛡️ CVE-2025-48443 — password-manager

🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-64 NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
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Description

Trend Micro Password Manager (Consumer) version 5.0.0.1266 and below is vulnerable to a Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to leverage this vulnerability to delete files in the context of an administrator when the administrator installs Trend Micro Password Manager.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-48443 is classified as CWE-64: Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK). The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently handle when the file is a Windows shortcut (.LNK) whose target is outside of the intended control sphere. This could allow an attacker to cause the product to operate on unauthorized files.

Affected software

CVE-2025-48443 is recorded against 1 package.

  • password-manager (fixed in 5.8.0.1330)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 June 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

helpcenter.trendmicro.com
www.zerodayinitiative.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-64
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-06-17
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
password-manager — 5.8.0.1330

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