CVE-2021-37850 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2021-37850

Denial of service in ESET for Mac products

Vulnerability Description

ESET was made aware of a vulnerability in its consumer and business products for macOS that enables a user logged on to the system to stop the ESET daemon, effectively disabling the protection of the ESET security product until a system reboot.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • ESET values the principles of responsible disclosure within the security industry and would like to express our thanks to Teiei Shu (廷叡 周) who reported this issue.

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Affected Vendor

ESET, spol. s r.o.

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Affected Software

ESET Cyber Security, ESET Cyber Security Pro, ESET Endpoint Antivirus for macOS, ESET Endpoint Security for macOS
Vulnerable Versions:
unspecified

Timeline

Official Publish: November 8th, 2021
Last Modified: August 4th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.