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Integrates with: Arctic Wolf ↗, Cisco ↗, Datto ↗, Elastic ↗, Google ↗, Kaseya ↗, Microsoft ↗, Mindflow ↗
4 of 5 independent trust signals established
ESET has 4 dimensions with established evidence. The rest have not been confirmed yet.
Not yet established: Independently verified
Has anyone other than the vendor confirmed this?
1 independent source(s) corroborate this vendor's claims.
Certifications & compliance claimsWhat the tiers meanVerified in a public registry — we confirmed this against an authoritative public registry (FedRAMP Marketplace, CSA STAR) and re-check it by the registry's own identifier. Stated by the vendor — the vendor says it on a page they control; a sourced claim about themselves, not an independent check. Detected on a page — found during automated enrichment, neither registry-confirmed nor stated on the vendor's own site.
Some certifications have no public registry at all — SOC 2 and HIPAA among them. For those, “not registry-verified” is not a shortfall and means nothing about the vendor.
Stated by the vendor
2 CVEs have an estimated 10%-or-higher chance of having already been exploited despite not appearing on CISA's KEV catalog. KEV is a curated record of confirmed cases rather than a complete census, so this is where its coverage is likely thinnest — an estimate from EPSS history, not a finding. Based on a median of 2 EPSS observations per CVE.
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability in ESET PROTECT On-Prem increased resource consumption (CPU and RAM), leading to conditions for a Denial-of-Service attack.
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in ESET AV Remover (standalone) allows Privilege Escalation via especially crafted RPC.
Not a quality rating or endorsement — a measure of how much verified, disclosed data we actually have about this vendor. A low score usually means "we don't have much verified information yet," not "this is a bad vendor." Never used to sort or rank vendor lists.
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Is this a real, durable business?
How long this vendor has been operating, and who stands behind them.
What do they do when something goes wrong?
What their public record shows about handling vulnerabilities and outages.
Do they tell you the awkward things unprompted?
How much this vendor volunteers before you have to ask.
Are they still shipping, or coasting?
Whether this vendor is visibly still building.
Some of these (SOC 2, HIPAA and similar) have no public registry, so no one can independently verify them — that is a fact about the framework, not about this vendor.
Security headers (5/5) — checked 10/18/2026
Infrastructure & transparency signals
Likely-exploited estimates here rest on a median of 2 EPSS observations per CVE — too little history to read as a trend yet. It deepens daily as scores are collected.
A path traversal vulnerability affecting the Windows version of WinRAR allows the attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious archive files. This …
Eset Anti-Virus before 1.020 (16th September 2004) allows remote attackers to bypass antivirus protection via a compressed file with both local and global heade…
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in ESET NOD32 Antivirus before 2.70.37.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code during (1) delete/disinfect or (…
Integer overflow in the (a) OLE2 and (b) CHM parsers for ESET NOD32 Antivirus before 1.1743 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) …
Race condition in ESET NOD32 Antivirus before 2.2289 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CAB file, which triggers heap corruption.
Use-after-free vulnerability in ESET Linux products potentially allowed an attacker to trigger kernel panic on the system
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in ESET Inspect Connector. The vulnerability was caused by improper authentication in an IPC channel.
User enumeration in ESET Protect (on-prem) via Response Timing.
Local privilege escalation vulnerability via insecure temporary batch file execution in ESET Management Agent
Planting a custom configuration file in ESET Inspect Connector allow load a malicious DLL.
Tampering of the registry entries might have led to preventing the ESET security products from starting correctly on the next system startup or to unauthorized changes in the product's configuration.
A path traversal vulnerability affecting the Windows version of WinRAR allows the attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious archive files. This vulnerability was exploited in the wild …
Time-of-check to time-of-use race condition vulnerability potentially allowed an attacker to use the installed ESET security software to clear the content of an arbitrary file on the file system.
Installation file of ESET security products on Windows allow an attacker to misuse to delete an arbitrary file without having the permissions to do so.
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 …
The vulnerability potentially allowed an attacker to misuse ESET’s file operations during the removal of a detected file on the Windows operating system to delete files without having proper permissio…
Denial of service vulnerability present shortly after product installation or upgrade, potentially allowed an attacker to render ESET’s security product inoperable, provided non-default preconditions …
Local privilege escalation vulnerability allowed an attacker to misuse ESET's file operations during a restore operation from quarantine.
Local privilege escalation vulnerability potentially allowed an attacker to misuse ESET’s file operations to delete files without having proper permission.
Unquoted service path in ESET products allows to drop a prepared program to a specific location and run on boot with the NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService permissions.
The vulnerability potentially allows an attacker to misuse ESET’s file operations during the module update to delete or move files without having proper permissions.
During internal security analysis, a local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified. On a machine with the affected ESET product installed, it was possible for a user with lower privile…
Local privilege escalation in Windows products of ESET allows user who is logged into the system to exploit repair feature of the installer to run malicious code with higher privileges. This issue aff…
Privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows products of ESET, spol. s r.o. allows attacker to exploit "Repair" and "Uninstall" features what may lead to arbitrary file deletion. This issue affects: …
Use-after-free in eset_rtp kernel module used in ESET products for Linux allows potential attacker to trigger denial-of-service condition on the system.
ESET products for Windows allows untrusted process to impersonate the client of a pipe, which can be leveraged by attacker to escalate privileges in the context of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
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 …
A local (authenticated) low-privileged user can exploit a behavior in an ESET installer to achieve arbitrary file overwrite (deletion) of any file via a symlink, due to insecure permissions. The possi…
ESET Antivirus and Antispyware Module module 1553 through 1560 allows a user with limited access rights to create hard links in some ESET directories and then force the product to write through these …
ESET Archive Support Module before 1294 allows virus-detection bypass via crafted RAR Compression Information in an archive. This affects versions before 1294 of Smart Security Premium, Internet Secur…
The ESET AV parsing engine allows virus-detection bypass via a crafted BZ2 Checksum field in an archive. This affects versions before 1294 of Smart Security Premium, Internet Security, NOD32 Antivirus…
A permissions issue in ESET Cyber Security before 6.8.300.0 for macOS allows a local attacker to escalate privileges by appending data to root-owned files.
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 …
ESET Archive Support Module before 1296 allows virus-detection bypass via a crafted Compression Information Field in a ZIP archive. This affects versions before 1294 of Smart Security Premium, Interne…
ESET Cyber Security 6.7.900.0 for macOS allows a local attacker to execute unauthorized commands as root by abusing an undocumented feature in scheduled tasks.
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installers of multiple Canon IT Solutions Inc. software programs (ESET Smart Security Premium, ESET Internet Security, ESET Smart Security, ESET NOD32 Antivi…
The esets_daemon service in ESET Endpoint Antivirus for macOS before 6.4.168.0 and Endpoint Security for macOS before 6.4.168.0 does not properly verify X.509 certificates from the edf.eset.com SSL se…
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Archive support module in ESET NOD32 before update 11861 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of languages in an EPOC installation fil…
The ESET Personal Firewall NDIS filter (EpFwNdis.sys) kernel mode driver, aka Personal Firewall module before Build 1212 (20140609), as used in multiple ESET products 5.0 through 7.0, allows local use…
The ESET Personal Firewall NDIS filter (EpFwNdis.sys) driver in the Firewall Module Build 1183 (20140214) and earlier in ESET Smart Security and ESET Endpoint Security products 5.0 through 7.0 allows …
Race condition in ESET Smart Security 4.2.35.3 on Windows XP allows local users to bypass kernel-mode hook handlers, and execute dangerous code that would otherwise be blocked by a handler but not blo…
easdrv.sys in ESET Smart Security 3.0.667.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted IOCTL 0x222003 request to the \\.\easdrv device interface.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Additional Report Settings interface in ESET Remote Administrator before 3.0.105 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unsp…
The Personal Firewall driver (aka epfw.sys) 3.0.672.0 and earlier in ESET Smart Security 3.0.672 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted IRP in a certain METHOD_NEITHER IOCTL r…
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3662 and possibly 3440, when Internet Explorer 6 or 7 is used, allows remote attackers to bypass detection of malware in an HTML document by placing an MZ header (aka "EXE info") …
ESET Smart Security, when Internet Explorer 6 or 7 is used, allows remote attackers to bypass detection of malware in an HTML document by placing an MZ header (aka "EXE info") at the beginning, and mo…
ESet NOD32 2.70.0039.0000 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which al…
The SysInspector AntiStealth driver (esiasdrv.sys) 3.0.65535.0 in ESET System Analyzer Tool 1.1.1.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a certain METHOD_NEITHER IOCTL request to \Device\e…
Race condition in ESET NOD32 Antivirus before 2.2289 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CAB file, which triggers heap corruption.
ESET NOD32 Antivirus before 2.2289 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted (1) ASPACK or (2) FSG packed file, which triggers a divide-by-zero error.
Integer overflow in ESET NOD32 Antivirus before 2.2289 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted ASPACK packed file, which triggers an infinite loop…
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in ESET NOD32 Antivirus before 2.70.37.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code during (1) delete/disinfect or (2) rename operations via a crafted direc…
Integer overflow in the (a) OLE2 and (b) CHM parsers for ESET NOD32 Antivirus before 1.1743 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) .DOC or (2) .CAB file that triggers a he…
ESET NOD32 Antivirus before 1.1743 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted .CHM file that triggers a divide-by-zero error.
The "restore to" selection in the "quarantine a file" capability of ESET NOD32 before 2.51.26 allows a restore to any directory that permits read access by the invoking user, which allows local users …
Eset Anti-Virus before 1.020 (16th September 2004) allows remote attackers to bypass antivirus protection via a compressed file with both local and global headers set to zero, which does not prevent t…
Buffer overflow in Eset Software NOD32 for UNIX before 1.013 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long path name.
ESET’s cost-benefit ratio was significantly better than that of other competitors. However, what convinced us were two soft factors. The high level of engagement and the open communication without empty promises are what sealed the deal
