Local privilege escalation in ESET Inspect Connector for Windows

8.4 / 10

HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

Planting a custom configuration file

in

ESET Inspect Connector allow load a malicious DLL.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-13176

Source ESET

Published Jan 30, 2026 at 12:18

Affected Product

Vendor ESET, spol. s.r.o

Product ESET Inspect Connector

Affected Versions ESET, spol. s.r.o ESET Inspect Connector 0

CWE Classification

CWE-269

References

support.eset.com /en/ca8910-eset-customer-advisory-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-fixed-in-eset-inspect-connector-for-windows

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