CVE-2014-9641

high
Published 2015-02-06 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.2

Description

The tmeext.sys driver before 2.0.0.1015 in Trend Micro Antivirus Plus, Internet Security, and Maximum Security allows local users to write to arbitrary memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a crafted 0x00222400 IOCTL call.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35962 local windows
Parvez Anwar ยท 2015-01-31

Trend Micro 8.0.1133 (Multiple Products) - Local Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
trendmicrotmeext.sys{"endIncluding":"2.0.0.1014"}

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.