Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in ESET AV Remover (standalone) allows Privilege Escalation via especially crafted RPC.

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 0.00096.

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 AV Remover (standalone) unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 1.6.11.0

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References
Link Providers
https://support.eset.com/en/ca9000-eset-customer-advisory-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-eset-av-remover-fixed cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:45:00 +0000

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Description Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in ESET AV Remover (standalone) allows Privilege Escalation via especially crafted RPC.
Title Local privilege escalation vulnerability in ESET AV Remover
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'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ESET

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-09T12:57:45.394Z

Reserved: 2026-06-22T06:56:40.919Z

Link: CVE-2026-12858

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-09T12:57:36.920Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-09T09:17:10.320

Modified: 2026-09-09T15:39:13.607

Link: CVE-2026-12858

cve-icon Redhat

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Updated: 2026-09-09T10:45:08Z

Weaknesses