CVE-2023-7043
Unquoted path privilege vulnerability in ESET products for Windows
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ESET
Description
Unquoted service path in ESET products allows to drop a prepared program to a specific location and run on boot with the NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService permissions.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ESET
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESETCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 79% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.
Weakness
Affected products
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Endpoint Security
- affected 10.1.2046.x – ≤ 10.1.2063.x
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Endpoint Antivirus
- affected 10.1.2046.x – ≤ 10.1.2063.x
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET NOD32 Antivirus
- affected 16.1.14.0 – ≤ 16.2.15.0
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Internet Security
- affected 16.1.14.0 – ≤ 16.2.15.0
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Smart Security Premium
- affected 16.1.14.0 – ≤ 16.2.15.0
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server
- affected 10.1.10012.0
References (1)
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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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-7043)Record last updated .