ESET NOD32 Antivirus privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Internet Security, Smart Security Premium, Security Ultimate, Endpoint Antivirus for Windows, Endpoint Security for Windows, Server Security for Windows Server, Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server, Mail Security for IBM Domino, Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server and File Security for Microsoft Azure. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-0353. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Internet Security, Smart Security Premium, Security Ultimate, Endpoint Antivirus for Windows, Endpoint Security for Windows, Server Security for Windows Server, Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server, Mail Security for IBM Domino, Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server and File Security for Microsoft Azure (Anti-Malware Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Local privilege escalation vulnerability potentially allowed an attacker to misuse ESET’s file operations to delete files without having proper permission.

The weakness was published 02/15/2024. The advisory is shared at support.eset.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-0353 since 01/09/2024. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/24/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Anti-Malware Software

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• ESET

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• Endpoint Antivirus for Windows
• Endpoint Security for Windows
• File Security for Microsoft Azure
• Internet Security
• Mail Security for IBM Domino
• Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server
• NOD32 Antivirus
• Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server
• Security Ultimate
• Server Security for Windows Server
• Smart Security Premium

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• commercial

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