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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2021-37850 json

Denial of service in ESET for Mac products

published 2021-11-08 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-24329

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 13%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security Pro 6.10.700
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Antivirus for macOS 6.10.910.0
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Security for macOS 6.10.910.0

Exploit prediction

0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security Pro
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Antivirus for macOS
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Security for macOS

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.