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CVE-2023-2847
Local privilege escalation in ESET products for Linux and MacOS
High7.8EPSS 0.15%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- ESET
Description
During internal security analysis, a local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified. On a machine with the affected ESET product installed, it was possible for a user with lower privileges due to improper privilege management to trigger actions with root privileges. ESET remedied this possible attack vector and has prepared new builds of its products that are no longer susceptible to this vulnerability.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESETCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.15% · top 96% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
ESET · Server Security for Linux
- unaffected 9.1.98.0
- unaffected 9.0.466.0
- unaffected 8.1.823.0
ESET · Endpoint Antivirus for Linux
- unaffected 9.1.11.0
- unaffected 9.0.10.0
- unaffected 8.1.12.0
- unaffected 7.3.3700.0
ESET · Endpoint Antivirus for macOS
- unaffected 7.3.3600.0
References (1)
- https://support.eset.com/en/ca8447 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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