High 8.5Published Jul 24, 2026

CVE-2026-7483Local privilege escalation in ESET security applications for macOS

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 5:10 AM ET)

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It affects ESET spol. s.r.o. ESET Endpoint Security for macOS and 1 other product. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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

CVSS: 8.5 HIGH (v4.0, CNA)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
Weakness (CWE): CWE-269
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: ESET
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Jul 24, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

ESET spol. s.r.o. ESET Endpoint Security for macOS eset_spol_s.r.o:eset_endpoint_security_for_macos (from the name)	from 9.1 through 9.1.2500.0; fixed at 9.1.3100.0; from 9.0 through 9.0.5400.0; fixed at 9.0.6400.0; from 8.1 through 8.1.200.0; fixed at 8.1.300.0; through 8.0.7200.0	CNA record
ESET spol. s.r.o. ESET Cyber Security for macOS eset_spol_s.r.o:eset_cyber_security_for_macos (from the name)	through 9.0.5300.0; fixed at 9.0.6300.0	CNA record

References

References

https://support.eset.com/en/ca8974-eset-customer-advisory-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-eset-security-applications-for-macos-fixed

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