CVE-2023-3160Local privilege escalation in security products for Windows
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.18%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 93% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The vulnerability potentially allows an attacker to misuse ESET’s file operations during the module update to delete or move files without having proper permissions.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ESET
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESETCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.18% · top 93% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET NOD32 Antivirus
- unaffected 1463
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Internet Security
- unaffected 1463
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Smart Security Premium
- unaffected 1463
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Endpoint Antivirus
- unaffected 1463
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Endpoint Security
- unaffected 1463
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Server Security for Windows Server (File Security)
- unaffected 1463
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server
- unaffected 1463
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Mail Security for IBM Domino
- unaffected 1463
ESET, spol. s r.o. · ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server
- unaffected 1463
References
References1
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-43844 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-3160)Record last updated .