CVE-2022-26871

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-31), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictMitigate nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 19%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).

An arbitrary file upload vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex Central could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to upload an arbitrary file which could lead to remote code execution.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
99
EG Risk 99/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.
EPSS PROB
19%
EPSS %ILE
97th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
19% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.

In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-26871

Published

March 29, 2022

Last Modified

December 22, 2025

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Oct 23, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Fix referenced — no release confirmed yet.
Web page

[Updated] Alert Regarding Vulnerability (CVE-2022-26871) in Trend Micro Apex Central

https://www.jpcert.or.jp/english/at/2022/at220008.html
Web page

JVNVU#99107357: Trend Micro Apex CentralおよびTrend Micro Apex Central as a Serviceにおけるファイルコンテンツの検証不備の脆弱性

https://jvn.jp/vu/JVNVU99107357
Web page

サポート情報 : トレンドマイクロ

https://appweb.trendmicro.com/supportNews/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4435

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 191× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,155 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,055 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-23 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  2. 2026-10-23 02:43 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-23 02:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-22 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  5. 2026-10-22 00:56 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-22 00:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  8. 2026-10-20 23:10 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-20 23:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-20 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  11. 2026-10-19 21:24 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-19 21:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  14. 2026-10-18 19:37 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-18 19:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  17. 2026-10-18 08:39 UTCEG score recompute
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  19. 2026-10-17 17:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
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  22. 2026-10-16 16:04 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-16 16:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-15 14:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  2. 2026-10-14 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  3. 2026-10-14 12:28 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-14 12:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-13 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  6. 2026-10-13 10:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-12 18:57 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-12 08:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-12 05:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-12 01:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-11 21:26 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-11 21:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-11 17:37 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-11 17:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-11 13:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-10-11 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  18. 2026-10-11 09:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-11 06:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  22. 2026-10-10 22:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-10 19:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  24. 2026-10-10 18:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-10 14:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  30. 2026-10-09 23:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  31. 2026-10-09 20:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  32. 2026-10-09 19:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  40. 2026-10-08 17:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  41. 2026-10-08 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  42. 2026-10-08 13:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  46. 2026-10-08 01:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  48. 2026-10-07 22:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  57. 2026-10-06 15:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  58. 2026-10-06 15:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  59. 2026-10-06 11:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  64. 2026-10-05 20:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  65. 2026-10-05 17:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 19% · 97th percentile
  66. 2026-10-05 16:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  71. 2026-10-05 01:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  73. 2026-10-04 21:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j827-v44f-fw4p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2022-26871?
CVE-2022-26871 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 29, 2022. An arbitrary file upload vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex Central could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to upload an arbitrary file which could lead to remote code execution.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2022-26871 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2022-26871 was published on March 29, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of December 22, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2022-26871 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2022-26871 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 31, 2022, affecting Trend Micro Apex Central. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-26871?
CVE-2022-26871 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2022-26871?
CVE-2022-26871 affects Trend Micro Apex Central.
How do I remediate CVE-2022-26871?
A fix for CVE-2022-26871 is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but EchelonGraph has no release containing it on record. Check that reference and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains the fix and update to it; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

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