CVE-2025-13176 Local privilege escalation in ESET Inspect Connector for Windows
High 8.4
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-13176 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2025-13176 is a high-severity vulnerability in ESET, spol. s.r.o ESET Inspect Connector, published on 30 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13176 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: ESET, spol. s.r.o ESET Inspect Connector. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13176/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13176/index.md)
Attackers can escalate privileges and execute code by planting a malicious DLL via a custom configuration file in ESET Inspect Connector.
- 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-2025-13176?
CVE-2025-13176 is a high-severity vulnerability in ESET, spol. s.r.o ESET Inspect Connector, published on 30 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Planting a custom configuration file
in
ESET Inspect Connector allow load a malicious DLL.
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-13176?
How do I fix CVE-2025-13176?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13176 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-13176 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13176 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2p6p-hqq4-q469.