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Fencer Vulns
high 8.5

CVE-2024-7400 json

Local privilege escalation in ESET products for Windows

published 2024-09-27 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-48331

cvss
8.5
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The vulnerability potentially allowed an attacker to misuse ESET’s file operations during the removal of a detected file on the Windows operating system to delete files without having proper permissions to do so.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET NOD32 Antivirus
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Internet Security
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Smart Security Premium
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Security Ultimate
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Small Business Security
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Safe Server
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Antivirus
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Security for Windows
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Server Security for Windows Server
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Mail Security for IBM Domino
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server
  • ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET File Security for Microsoft Azure
  • eset mail_security

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1386 Insecure Operation on Windows Junction / Mount Point

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.