Trend Micro Apex Central is a centralized management platform under Trend Micro used to manage various Trend Micro security solutions, including gateways, mail servers, file servers, and corporate desktops. Recently, a critical security vulnerability announcement was released, stating that this vulnerability (CVE-2025-69258, CVSS: 9.8) is a security weakness in the LoadLibraryEX function used by Trend Micro Apex Central. Unauthenticated remote attackers can load malicious DLLs they control into key executable files in the system and execute the attacker's code with SYSTEM privileges.