CVE-2019-17549 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-17549?

CVE-2019-17549 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Mar 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ESET Cyber Security before 6.8.1.0 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service allowing any user to stop (kill) ESET processes. An attacker can abuse this bug to stop the protection from ESET and launch his attack.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-17549?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Eset Cyber Security.

How do I fix CVE-2019-17549?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-17549 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-17549 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-17549 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2020-10180 Security feature bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-2847 Local privilege escalation in ESET products for Linux and MacOS High 7.8
• CVE-2019-16519 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2020-10193 Security feature bypass in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2021-37850 Denial of service in ESET for Mac products Medium 5.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mpqh-vcrx-rgx2.