Privilege escalation in Eset, Spol. S.r.o. Eset Inspect Connector

CVE-2026-6423

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in ESET Inspect Connector.  The vulnerability was caused by improper authentication in an IPC channel.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

Published · last modified .

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (6.0th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 6th percentile — 6.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2026-6423: held from 0.002 to 0.002.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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