01 Record
CVE-2019-19792
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.
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base score5.2 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:L/A:L/C:L/I:L/PR:H/S:C/UI:R
02 Description
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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 33.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.7 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-03-03 14:32Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 02:25Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-12-13
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.2)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:L/A:L/C:L/I:L/PR:H/S:C/UI:R
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276Incorrect Default PermissionsBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3edd8eba844360cef12c4e7f35021e20a01d1e8655b450c05f6a4eaa0c738500
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- danishcyberdefence.dkhttps://danishcyberdefence.dk/blog/esets-cyber-security