High severity · published Jan 30, 2026
CVE-2025-13176
Local privilege escalation in ESET Inspect Connector for Windows
8.4
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Planting a custom configuration file
in
ESET Inspect Connector allow load a malicious DLL.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 5% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EI
ESET Inspect Connector · ESET, spol. s.r.o
through 2.8.5555 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13176
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-13176
support.eset.com
https://support.eset.com/en/ca8910-eset-customer-advisory-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-fixed-in-eset-inspect-connector-for-windows
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