CVE-2024-6654 Denial of Service vulnerability in ESET products for macOS
A local attacker can cause a denial of service, disabling ESET security protection and slowing down the macOS system.
- 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-2024-6654?
CVE-2024-6654 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security, published on 27 Sep 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Products for macOS enables a user logged on to the system to perform a denial-of-service attack, which could be misused to disable the protection of the ESET security product and cause general system slow-down.
Weakness: CWE-377
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6654?
How do I fix CVE-2024-6654?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6654 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-2024-6654 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6654 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8v4g-x6m4-p3qj.