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CVE-2026-7483: Local privilege escalation in ESET security applications for macOS

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-07-24 · updated 2026-07-30
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

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

Affected products

• ESET spol. s.r.o. ESET Cyber Security for macOS: through 9.0.5300.0
• ESET spol. s.r.o. ESET Endpoint Security for macOS: from 9.1 through 9.1.2500.0; from 9.0 through 9.0.5400.0; from 8.1 through 8.1.200.0; through 8.0.7200.0

References

• https://support.eset.com/en/ca8974-eset-customer-advisory-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-eset-security-applications-for-macos-fixed

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