A flaw in ESET antivirus let attackers execute arbitrary code
1 February 2022
The critical vulnerability was discovered by a cybersecurity analyst at Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) and it has been tracked as CVE-2021-37852. The vulnerability lets attackers exploit the AMSI scanning function. ESET has released a patch to fix this local privilege escalation vulnerability.
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