CVE-2025-5028 (GCVE-0-2025-5028)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-11 06:40
Modified
2025-07-11 16:11
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - 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
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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