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CVE-2023-3160: Local privilege escalation in security products for Windows

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-08-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

The vulnerability potentially allows an attacker to misuse ESET’s file operations during the module update to delete or move files without having proper permissions.

Affected products

• ESET Endpoint Antivirus: all versions
• ESET Endpoint Security: all versions
• ESET Internet Security: all versions
• ESET Mail Security: all versions
• ESET Nod32: all versions
• ESET Security: all versions
• ESET Server Security: all versions
• ESET Smart Security: all versions

References

• https://support.eset.com/en/ca8466
• https://support.eset.com/en/ca8466

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