CVE-2021-37850

Denial of service in ESET for Mac products

Severity Score

5.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

ESET se dio cuenta de una vulnerabilidad en sus productos de consumo y empresariales para macOS que permite a un usuario conectado al sistema detener el demonio de ESET, deshabilitando efectivamente la protección del producto de seguridad de ESET hasta un reinicio del sistema

*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.

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2021-08-02 CVE Reserved
2021-11-08 CVE Published
2024-08-04 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (1)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://support.eset.com/en/ca8151	2021-11-09

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Eset Search vendor "Eset"		Cyber Security Search vendor "Eset" for product "Cyber Security"				<= 6.10.700 Search vendor "Eset" for product "Cyber Security" and version " <= 6.10.700"		macos		Affected
Eset Search vendor "Eset"		Cyber Security Search vendor "Eset" for product "Cyber Security"				<= 6.10.700 Search vendor "Eset" for product "Cyber Security" and version " <= 6.10.700"		pro, macos		Affected
Eset Search vendor "Eset"		Endpoint Antivirus Search vendor "Eset" for product "Endpoint Antivirus"				<= 6.10.910.0 Search vendor "Eset" for product "Endpoint Antivirus" and version " <= 6.10.910.0"		macos		Affected
Eset Search vendor "Eset"		Endpoint Security Search vendor "Eset" for product "Endpoint Security"				<= 6.10.910.0 Search vendor "Eset" for product "Endpoint Security" and version " <= 6.10.910.0"		macos		Affected