CVE-2026-7483

Local privilege escalation in ESET security applications for macOS

HIGH
8.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 24, 2026 at 09:40 AM UTC
Updated: July 30, 2026 at 07:29 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorEndpoint SecurityESET Cyber Security

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Severity
HIGH8.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Local privilege escalation potentially allowed an attacker to write an arbitrary file with fully controlled content as a privileged user.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 8.0.7200.08.1 ≤ v ≤ 8.1.200.09.0 ≤ v ≤ 9.0.5400.09.1 ≤ v ≤ 9.1.2500.08.19.09.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

8.5HIGHESET
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-269

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