Vulnerabilites related to ESET - ESET File Security for Microsoft Windows Server
cve-2021-37852
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-02-09 05:14
Modified
2024-09-16 23:02
Summary
ESET products for Windows allows untrusted process to impersonate the client of a pipe, which can be leveraged by attacker to escalate privileges in the context of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
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