A local privilege escalation vulnerability in ESET Inspect Connector.
The vulnerability was caused by improper authentication in an IPC channel.
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-269
Local privilege escalation via unauthenticated ALPC in ESET Inspect Connector
Problem type
Affected products
ESET, spol. s.r.o.
ESET Inspect Connector
<= 3.0.5775.0 - AFFECTED
References
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-95hw-w6xx-75xp
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in ESET Inspect Connector. The vulnerability was...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-95hw-w6xx-75xpA local privilege escalation vulnerability in ESET Inspect Connector. The vulnerability was caused by improper authentication in an IPC channel.
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