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HIGH

CVE-2021-37852

CVE-2021-37852 — LPE in ESET products for Windows

ESET products for Windows allows untrusted process to impersonate the client of a pipe, which can be leveraged by attacker to escalate privileges in the context of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, ESET

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

eset

11 products listed

CVSS base

7.8

HIGH

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

eset

Products (11)

eset nod32 antiviruseset internet securityeset smart securityeset endpoint antivirus for windowseset endpoint security for windowseset server security for microsoft windows servereset file security for microsoft windows servereset server security for microsoft azureeset security for microsoft sharepoint servereset mail security for ibm dominoeset mail security for microsoft exchange server

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
7.8CVSS 3.1HIGH——cvelistV5

References

2 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • esetevery CVE for this vendor

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.