Affects widely deployed Trend Micro Apex Central; unauthenticated DoS could disrupt security operations across enterprises.
CVE-2025-69260
Unauthenticated out-of-bounds read in Apex Central allows DoS.
Is CVE-2025-69260 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2025-69260 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-2025-69260?
CVE-2025-69260 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-2025-69260?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2025-69260. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2025-69260 affect?
CVE-2025-69260 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-2025-69260?
Apply vendor patch/upgrade to fixed version
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Unauthenticated remote DoS via out-of-bounds read; attacker can crash the Apex Central service, impacting availability.
Immediate action required
- 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.