# DLL Search Order Hijacking in ESET products for Windows

CVE record · `CVE-2024-11859`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2024-11859`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.4 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** ESET
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-427](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/427.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-427](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-427.md)
- **Technologies:** [ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET NOD32 Antivirus](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/eset-spol-s-r-o-eset-nod32-antivirus.md) · [ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Internet Security](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/eset-spol-s-r-o-eset-internet-security.md) · [ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Smart Security Premium](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/eset-spol-s-r-o-eset-smart-security-premium.md) · [ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Security Ultimate](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/eset-spol-s-r-o-eset-security-ultimate.md) · [ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Windows](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/eset-spol-s-r-o-eset-endpoint-antivirus-for-windows.md) · [ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Endpoint Security for Windows](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/eset-spol-s-r-o-eset-endpoint-security-for-windows.md) · [ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Small Business Security](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/eset-spol-s-r-o-eset-small-business-security.md) · [ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Safe Server](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/eset-spol-s-r-o-eset-safe-server.md) · [ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Server Security for Windows Server](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/eset-spol-s-r-o-eset-server-security-for-windows-server.md) · [ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/eset-spol-s-r-o-eset-mail-security-for-microsoft-exchange-server.md) · [ESET, spol. s r.o. ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/eset-spol-s-r-o-eset-security-for-microsoft-sharepoint-server.md)
- **Published:** 7 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 16 Apr 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: ESET) at 7 Apr 2025, 08:08 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: ESET, spol. s r.o.. Product: ESET NOD32 Antivirus.
  - affected: `18.0.12.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: ESET, spol. s r.o.. Product: ESET Internet Security.
  - affected: `18.0.12.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: ESET, spol. s r.o.. Product: ESET Smart Security Premium.
  - affected: `18.0.12.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: ESET, spol. s r.o.. Product: ESET Security Ultimate.
  - affected: `18.0.12.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: ESET, spol. s r.o.. Product: ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Windows.
  - affected: `12.0.2038.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - affected: `11.1.2053.2 and earlier` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: ESET, spol. s r.o.. Product: ESET Endpoint Security for Windows.
  - affected: `12.0.2038.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - affected: `11.1.2053.2 and earlier` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: ESET, spol. s r.o.. Product: ESET Small Business Security.
  - affected: `18.0.12.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: ESET, spol. s r.o.. Product: ESET Safe Server.
  - affected: `18.0.12.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: ESET, spol. s r.o.. Product: ESET Server Security for Windows Server.
  - affected: `11.1.12005.2 and earlier` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: ESET, spol. s r.o.. Product: ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server.
  - affected: `11.1.10008.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - affected: `11.0.10008.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - affected: `10.1.10014.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: ESET, spol. s r.o.. Product: ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server.
  - affected: `11.1.15001.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - affected: `11.0.15004.0 and earlier` (custom)
  - affected: `10.0.15005.1 and earlier` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 8.4 High, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`, from CNA (ESET)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.021, the 81st percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 7 Apr 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2024-11859](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11859)
- [NVD: CVE-2024-11859](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11859)

### References from the CNA

- <https://support.eset.com/en/ca8810-dll-search-order-hijacking-vulnerability-in-eset-products-for-windows-fixed>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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