CVE-2021-37852 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple ESET Windows products, including Endpoint Antivirus and Smart Security. It allows an untrusted process to impersonate a pipe client, enabling an attacker to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered community attention and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 6.6.2046.0, < 7.3.2055.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* | ||
>= 8.0, < 8.0.2028.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* | ||
>= 8.1, < 8.1.2031.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* | ||
>= 9.0, < 9.0.2032.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* | ||
>= 6.6.2046.0, < 7.3.2055.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_security:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* |
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.
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.