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Trend Micro Patches Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apex Central

First seen 9 Jan 2026, 16:54 UTC • Bleepingcomputer

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Trend Micro has released patches for critical vulnerabilities in its Apex Central software, which were discovered by Tenable in August 2025. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-69258 and CVE-2025-6925, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges, potentially compromising affected systems.

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Attack Flow

14 entities, 22 inferred relationships (STIX 2.1).

Technique (3)

DDoS
Remote Code Execution
Zero-day Exploit

Organization (2)

Tenable
Trend Micro

Vulnerability (7)

CVE-2022-26871
CVE-2025-69258
CVE-2025-69259
CVE-2025-69260
LoadLibraryEX Vulnerability
NULL Return Value Vulnerability
Out-of-bounds Read Vulnerability

Affected Platform (2)

Apex Central
Windows

Relationships

CVE-2022-26871 targets Apex Central
CVE-2022-26871 targets Windows
CVE-2025-69258 targets Apex Central
CVE-2025-69258 targets Windows
CVE-2025-69259 targets Apex Central
CVE-2025-69259 targets Windows
CVE-2025-69260 targets Apex Central
CVE-2025-69260 targets Windows
LoadLibraryEX Vulnerability targets Apex Central
LoadLibraryEX Vulnerability targets Windows
NULL Return Value Vulnerability targets Apex Central
NULL Return Value Vulnerability targets Windows
Out-of-bounds Read Vulnerability targets Apex Central
Out-of-bounds Read Vulnerability targets Windows
DDoS targets Apex Central
DDoS targets Windows
Remote Code Execution targets Apex Central
Remote Code Execution targets Windows
Zero-day Exploit targets Apex Central
Zero-day Exploit targets Windows
CVE-2022-26871 related to Tenable
CVE-2022-26871 related to Trend Micro

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