Denial of Service in ESET products for Windows
Denial of service vulnerability present shortly after product installation or upgrade, potentially allowed an attacker to render ESET’s security product inoperable, provided non-default preconditions were met.
- Published
- Jul 16, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 9th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-276
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Report tools
Action score
22
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 5.5
- CNA · ESET
- 6.1
- 0.6 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| eset | internet security | cpe:2.3:a:eset:internet_security |
| eset | nod32 | cpe:2.3:a:eset:nod32 |
| eset | security | cpe:2.3:a:eset:security |
| eset | smart security | cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security |
| eset | endpoint antivirus | cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_antivirus |
| eset | endpoint security | cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_security |
| eset | server security | cpe:2.3:a:eset:server_security |
| eset | mail security | cpe:2.3:a:eset:mail_security |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- eset endpoint antivirusbefore 11.1.2039.0
- eset endpoint securitybefore 11.1.2039.0
- eset internet securitybefore 17.2.7.0
- eset mail securityall versions
- eset mail securityup to 11.0.10008.0 inclusive
- eset nod32before 17.2.7.0
- eset securitybefore 17.2.7.0
- eset securitybefore 11.0.15004.0
- eset server securitybefore 11.0.12012.0
- eset smart securitybefore 17.2.7.0
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ESET). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
ESET s.r.o ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Windows
- up to and including 11.0.2044.0affected
ESET s.r.o ESET Endpoint Security for Windows
- up to and including 11.0.2044.0affected
ESET s.r.o ESET Internet Security
- up to and including 17.1.13.0affected
ESET s.r.o ESET Mail Security for IBM Domino
- 0affected
ESET s.r.o ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server
- up to and including 11.0.10005.0affected
ESET s.r.o ESET NOD32 Antivirus
- up to and including 17.1.13.0affected
ESET s.r.o ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server
- up to and including 11.0.15002.0affected
ESET s.r.o ESET Security Ultimate
- up to and including 17.1.13.0affected
ESET s.r.o ESET Server Security for Windows Server
- up to and including 11.0.12011.0affected
ESET s.r.o ESET Smart Security Premium
- up to and including 17.1.13.0affected
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-276 · Incorrect Default PermissionsCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
Noroxi analysis
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We use this product, ask for helpChange log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.