CVE-2021-37850 Denial of service in ESET for Mac products
A local user can stop the ESET daemon on macOS, disabling security protection until reboot, requiring a patch from ESET.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-37850?
CVE-2021-37850 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security, published on 8 Nov 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-37850?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Eset Cyber Security, Eset Endpoint Antivirus, Eset Endpoint Security.
How do I fix CVE-2021-37850?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-37850 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-2021-37850 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-37850 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fwc5-q384-h8fh.