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

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00125.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
ESET spol. s.r.o. ESET Endpoint Security for macOS unaffected
Version Status Constraints
9.1 affected ≤ 9.1.2500.0
9.0 affected ≤ 9.0.5400.0
8.1 affected ≤ 8.1.200.0
0 affected ≤ 8.0.7200.0
ESET spol. s.r.o. ESET Cyber Security for macOS unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 9.0.5300.0

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References
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History

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Eset
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Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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Description Local privilege escalation potentially allowed an attacker to write an arbitrary file with fully controlled content as a privileged user.
Title Local privilege escalation in ESET security applications for macOS
Weaknesses CWE-269
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ESET

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-24T10:49:13.322Z

Reserved: 2026-04-30T06:28:55.139Z

Link: CVE-2026-7483

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-24T10:49:07.083Z

cve-icon NVD

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-07-27T12:50:31Z

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