CVE-2026-6424 (GCVE-0-2026-6424)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-16 08:28 – Updated: 2026-07-16 12:17
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Use-after-free vulnerability in ESET security products for Linux
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in ESET Linux products potentially allowed an attacker to trigger kernel panic on the system
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-16 12:17 UTC
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use after free
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESET, spol. s.r.o. | ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Linux |
Affected:
13.1 , ≤ 13.1.3.0
(custom)
Affected: 13.0 , ≤ 13.0.3.0 (custom) Affected: 12.2 , ≤ 12.2.8.0 (custom) Affected: 12.1 , ≤ 12.1.1.0 (custom) Affected: 12.0 , ≤ 12.0.13.0 (custom) Unaffected: 13.2.3.0 |
guessed | |
| ESET, spol. s.r.o. | ESET Server Security for Linux |
Affected:
13.1 , ≤ 13.1.116.0
(custom)
Affected: 13.0 , ≤ 13.0.34.0 (custom) Affected: 12.2 , ≤ 12.2.72.0 (custom) Affected: 12.1 , ≤ 12.1.406.0 (custom) Affected: 12.0 , ≤ 12.0.287.0 (custom) Unaffected: 13.2.53.0 |
guessed |
Date Public
2026-07-16 08:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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