ESET Management Agent up to 12.5.2104.0 toctou

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in ESET Management Agent up to 12.5.2104.0. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to toctou. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-13818. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in ESET Management Agent up to 12.5.2104.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a toctou vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-367. The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Local privilege escalation vulnerability via insecure temporary batch file execution in ESET Management Agent

The advisory is available at support.eset.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-13818 since 12/01/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

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• ESET

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• Management Agent

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• 12.5.2104

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• commercial

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