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CVE-2026-7483 (GCVE-0-2026-7483)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-24 09:40 – Updated: 2026-07-24 10:49

Title

Local privilege escalation in ESET security applications for macOS

Summary

Local privilege escalation potentially allowed an attacker to write an arbitrary file with fully controlled content as a privileged user.

Severity

8.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

ESET

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://support.eset.com/en/ca8974-eset-customer-…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
ESET spol. s.r.o.	ESET Endpoint Security for macOS	Affected: 9.1 , ≤ 9.1.2500.0 (custom) Affected: 9.0 , ≤ 9.0.5400.0 (custom) Affected: 8.1 , ≤ 8.1.200.0 (custom) Affected: 0 , ≤ 8.0.7200.0 (custom)
ESET spol. s.r.o.	ESET Cyber Security for macOS	Affected: 0 , ≤ 9.0.5300.0 (custom)

Date Public

2026-07-24 09:30

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CERTFR-2026-AVI-0932

Vulnerability from certfr_avis - Published: 2026-07-24 - Updated: 2026-07-24

De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans les produits ESET. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une élévation de privilèges.

Solutions

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Description
ESET	Endpoint Security	Endpoint Security pour macOS versions antérieures à 8.1.300.0
ESET	Endpoint Security	Endpoint Security pour macOS versions 9.0.x antérieures à 9.0.6400.0
ESET	Cyber Security	Cyber Security pour macOS versions antérieures à 9.0.6300.0
ESET	Endpoint Security	Endpoint Security pour macOS versions 9.1.x antérieures à 9.1.3100.0

References

Title

Publication Time

GHSA-7VXW-2G46-Q538

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-24 12:30 – Updated: 2026-07-24 12:30

Details

Local privilege escalation potentially allowed an attacker to write an arbitrary file with fully controlled content as a privileged user.

Severity

8.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.

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