CVE-2019-16519 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in ESET Cyber Security 6.7.900.0 for macOS, as well as ESET Endpoint Antivirus and Endpoint Security. A local attacker can exploit an undocumented feature within scheduled tasks to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.8 (High), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, but with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available and there's no evidence of active exploitation, its presence in the KEV catalog is not noted, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6.7.900.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eset:cyber_security:*:*:*:*:-:macos:*:* | ||
<= 6.7.900.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eset:cyber_security:*:*:*:*:pro:macos:*:* | ||
<= 6.7.900.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_antivirus:*:*:*:*:-:macos:*:* | ||
<= 6.7.900.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_security:*:*:*:*:-:macos:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.