CVE-2025-5028Arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in ESET product installers
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.15%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 96% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Installation file of ESET security products on Windows allow an attacker to misuse to delete an arbitrary file without having the permissions to do so.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ESET
- 51 days later
· 51 days later
Published
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) | 4.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.15% · top 96% of all CVEs (13 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: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
ESET, spol. s.r.o · ESET NOD32 Antivirus
- affected ≤ 18.1.13.0
ESET, spol. s.r.o · ESET Internet Security
- affected ≤ 18.1.13.0
ESET, spol. s.r.o · ESET Smart Security Premium
- affected ≤ 18.1.13.0
ESET, spol. s.r.o · ESET Security Ultimate
- affected ≤ 18.1.13.0
ESET, spol. s.r.o · ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Windows
- affected ≤ 12.0.2049.0
- affected ≤ 11.1.2059.0
ESET, spol. s.r.o · ESET Endpoint Security for Windows
- affected ≤ 12.0.2049.0
- affected ≤ 11.1.2059.0
ESET, spol. s.r.o · ESET Small Business Security
- affected ≤ 18.1.13.0
ESET, spol. s.r.o · ESET Safe Server
- affected ≤ 18.1.13.0
References
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-2025-21123 (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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