Affects Trend Micro Apex Central, a widely-used enterprise security product; unauthenticated DoS risk that could disrupt operations.
CVE-2025-69259
Unauthenticated DoS via unchecked NULL return in Trend Micro Apex Central
Is CVE-2025-69259 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2025-69259 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2025-69259?
CVE-2025-69259 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 9.8. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2025-69259?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2025-69259. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2025-69259 affect?
CVE-2025-69259 affects Trend Micro Apex Central. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2025-69259?
Update to patched version when released; restrict access to Apex Central admin interface.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Remote attacker can cause denial-of-service on Apex Central without authentication by exploiting unchecked NULL return value.
Patch when possible
- affected>= 2019 (14.0) and < Build 7190
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.