A vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One on macOS may allow an attacker to manipulate a certain binary to load and run a script from a user-writable folder, which then would allow them to execute arbitrary code as root. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24559
• https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000263632
• https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000267260
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-1096/