CVE-2021-37850 (GCVE-0-2021-37850)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-08 13:35 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:30
VLAI
Title
Denial of service in ESET for Mac products
Summary
ESET was made aware of a vulnerability in its consumer and business products for macOS that enables a user logged on to the system to stop the ESET daemon, effectively disabling the protection of the ESET security product until a system reboot.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Denial Of Service
Assigner
ESET CNA under the ENISA root
CNA scorecard – unranked: 8 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details
References
URL Tags
https://support.eset.com/en/ca8151 x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security Affected: unspecified , ≤ 6.10.700 (custom)
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ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security Pro Affected: unspecified , < 6.10.700 (custom)
guessed Create a notification for this product.
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Antivirus for macOS Affected: unspecified , < 6.10.910.0 (custom)
guessed Create a notification for this product.
ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Security for macOS Affected: unspecified , < 6.10.910.0 (custom)
guessed Create a notification for this product.
Credits
ESET values the principles of responsible disclosure within the security industry and would like to express our thanks to Teiei Shu (廷叡 周) who reported this issue.
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