CVE-2023-7043: Unquoted path privilege vulnerability in ESET products for Windows
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.28% (FIRST EPSS).
- 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.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
- Severity is disputed: the assigning authority (CNA) scores it 3.3, NVD 5.5.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
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.
- Published
- Jan 31, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 20th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-428
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
- 3.3
- 2.2 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- Not in KEV: no record of exploitation in the wild
- No public exploit code on record
- No fixed version yet
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What does it mean in your environment?
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Is your version affected?
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| eset | endpoint antivirus | cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_antivirus |
| eset | endpoint security | cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_security |
| eset | internet security | cpe:2.3:a:eset:internet_security |
| eset | mail security | cpe:2.3:a:eset:mail_security |
| eset | nod32 antivirus | cpe:2.3:a:eset:nod32_antivirus |
| eset | smart security premium | cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security_premium |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- eset endpoint antivirus10.1.2046.0 and later · before 11.0.2032.0
- eset endpoint security10.1.2046.0 and later · before 11.0.2032.0
- eset internet security16.1.14.0 and later · before 17.0.15.0
- eset mail security10.1.10012.0
- eset nod32 antivirus16.1.14.0 and later · before 17.0.15.0
- eset smart security premium16.1.14.0 and later · before 17.0.15.0
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, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Antivirus
- 10.1.2046.x and later · up to and including 10.1.2063.xaffected
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Security
- 10.1.2046.x and later · up to and including 10.1.2063.xaffected
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Internet Security
- 16.1.14.0 and later · up to and including 16.2.15.0affected
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server
- 10.1.10012.0affected
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET NOD32 Antivirus
- 16.1.14.0 and later · up to and including 16.2.15.0affected
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Smart Security Premium
- 16.1.14.0 and later · up to and including 16.2.15.0affected
Same product
eset: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2023-5594Improper following of a certificate's chain of trust in ESET security products34Monitor
- CVE-2024-0353Local privilege escalation in Windows products31Monitor
- CVE-2023-3160Local privilege escalation in security products for Windows31Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2022-0615Feb 25, 2022 · Use-after-free vulnerability in ESET products for Linux30Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2022-27167May 10, 2022 · Arbitrary File Deletion in ESET products for Windows28Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2021-37851May 11, 2022 · Local Privilege Escalation in ESET product for Windows31Monitor
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.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
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
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-428 · Unquoted Search Path or ElementCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change 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.