2026-10-29NOTABLEexploitedPHP2Shell: Trend Micro Apex Central and Apex One await patches to 11 Nov; Quest KACE and NetApp ONTAP have fixes
Trend Micro Apex Central
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2026-10-29
PHP2Shell: Trend Micro Apex Central and Apex One await patches to 11 Nov; Quest KACE and NetApp ONTAP have…
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1 notable
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6
5 hosts
Action items (2)
Do-now tasks recorded on the entries about Trend Micro Apex Central, newest first. Check the date before acting on an older one.
- Restrict the Trend Micro Apex Central and Apex One server consoles and web endpoints to administrator networks now, apply Trend Micro's interim mitigation, and install the critical patches when they ship, due on 2026-11-11; patch Deep Discovery Inspector and Email Inspector when theirs arrive on 2026-10-30.2026-10-29CVE-2026-109618 +1
- Install KACE SMA 15.0 CU5 or 15.1 CU2 and the SDA 9.3 hotfix 9.3.312, and until then block inbound ports 80, 443 and 52230 to every appliance, as Quest advises.2026-10-29CVE-2026-109618 +1
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What each entry about Trend Micro Apex Central tells a defender to do, newest first.
Exposure · detection
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Trend Micro Apex Central
ATT&CK techniques (1 across 1 tactic)
1 technique observed across 1 entry about this entity, derived from entry metadata and body evidence, never asserted without a published entry behind it · pinned to MITRE ATT&CK v20.0 · compare on the matrix · Navigator layer (JSON)
- Initial AccessExploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access TA0001
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Application×1
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network. The weakness in the system can be a software bug, a temporary glitch, or a misconfiguration.
Evidence: 2026-10-29/php2shell-trend-micro-apex-quest-kace-netapp-ontap · ATT&CK page ↗
Entries about Trend Micro Apex Central (1)
Co-occurring entities
Derived: referenced by the same focused operational entries (weekly summaries and report roundups don't count); ×N counts the shared entries.
- NetApp ONTAP 9×1
- PHP×1
- PHP2Shell×1
- PHP: critical remote-code-execution flaw (CVSS 4.0 9.2) fixed in a security release pre-announced for 2026-10-21 14:00 UTC; the id is named by CERT-EU and Sansec and had no CVE.org record when read×1
- PHP: second critical remote-code-execution flaw (CVSS 4.0 9.2) in the release pre-announced for 2026-10-21 14:00 UTC; the id is named by CERT-EU and Sansec and had no CVE.org record when read×1
- Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance×1
- Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance×1
- Trend Micro Apex One×1
Where this entity is cited
Source distribution
- security.netapp.com2 (33%)
- cisa.gov1 (17%)
- kb.netapp.com1 (17%)
- success.trendmicro.com1 (17%)
- support.quest.com1 (17%)
All cited sources (6)
- cisa.govCISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities cataloghttps://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json
- kb.netapp.comNetApp Knowledge Basehttps://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/ontap/Ontap_OS/OS-KBs/How_to_apply_ONTAP_workarounds_for_PHP2SHELL_vulnerabilities
- security.netapp.comNetApp (NTAP-20261021-0021, advisory data)https://security.netapp.com/adv_api/advisory/NTAP-20261021-0021
- security.netapp.comNetApp (NTAP-20261021-0021)https://security.netapp.com/advisory/NTAP-20261021-0021
- success.trendmicro.comTrend Micro (KA-0024802)https://success.trendmicro.com/en-US/solution/KA-0024802
- support.quest.comQuest Software (KB 4385046)https://support.quest.com/kace-systems-management-appliance/kb/4385046/quest-kace-response-to-cve-2026-109618-and-cve-2026-109619-php2shell