CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2017-5481 — Trendmicro Officescan security vulnerability

High CVSS 8.8

Trend Micro OfficeScan 11.0 before SP1 CP 6325 and XG before CP 1352 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging a leak of an encrypted password during a web-console operation.

Severity
High
CVSS
8.8 (3.0)
Published
2017-05-03
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Affected products

  • trendmicro / officescan / 11.0
  • trendmicro / officescan / 12.0

Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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