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Out of scope vulnerabilities

Web applications

  • Reports from automated tools or scans
  • Denial of Service Attacks
  • Man in the middle attacks
  • Attacks requiring physical Access to user's device
  • Hypothetical issues that do not have any practical impact
  • Publicly accessible login panels without proof of exploitation
  • Findings derived primarily from social engineering (e.g. phishing, vishing, smishing) & other non-technical attacks
  • Informative severity & low severity issues
  • Spamming
  • Clickjacking and issues only exploitable through clickjacking.
  • Fingerprinting / banner disclosure on common/public services.
  • Mail configuration issues (SPF, DKIM, DMARC settings)
  • Descriptive error messages (e.g. Stack Traces, application or server errors)
  • HTTP 404 codes/pages or other HTTP non-200 codes/pages.
  • Disclosure of known public or non-sensitive files or directories, (e.g. robots.txt,crossdomain.xml or any other policy files, wildcard presence/misconfiguration in these).
  • Nonstandard HTTP method enabled
  • Missing Security headers (such as Strict-Transport-Security, X-Frame-Options, X-XSS-Protection, X-Content-Type-Options)
  • Lack of Secure/HTTP Only/SameSite flags on non-sensitive Cookies.
  • Open redirect that cannot be used to exfiltrate sensitive information (session cookies, OAuth tokens)
  • Management issues with multiple concurrent active sessions
  • Host-header injection Attacks
  • Self-XSS and issues exploitable only through Self-XS
  • CSRF on forms that are available to anonymous users (e.g. the contact form).
  • CSRF on logout
  • Presence of application or web browser ‘autocomplete’ or ‘save password’ functionality.
  • Forgot Password page brute force and account lockout not enforced.
  • Username / email enumeration without any further impact
  • Rate-limiting issues
  • Weak Captcha / Captcha Bypass
  • Use of a known-vulnerable library without a description of an exploit specific to our implementation
  • SSL Issues (example: weak/insecure cipher, BEAST, BREACH, Renegotiation attack, etc.)

Product vulnerabilities

  • dll injection in ESET installers
  • No SSL in update/download servers 
  • Tapjacking

Vulnerability categories we encourage

We treat all reports with high priority and investigate all issues directly with the reporter as quickly as possible. Please when you make a report, do so in English via security@eset.com and include the following information:

  • Target – ESET server identified by IP address, hostname, URL and so forth or the ESET product, including version number (see our KnowledgeBase article to determine the version number)
  • Type of issue – the type of vulnerability (e.g. according to OWASP, such as cross-site scripting, buffer overflow, SQL injection, etc.) and include a general description of the vulnerability.
  • Proof-of-concept and/or URL demonstrating the vulnerability – a demonstration of the vulnerability that shows how it works. Examples include:
    ●  URL containing payload – e.g. XSS in GET request parameters
    ●  Link to general checker – e.g. SSL vulnerabilities
    ●  Video – generally useable (if uploading to a streaming service, please mark it as private)
    ●  Log file from ESET SysInspector (see how to create ESET SysInspector log) or Microsoft Problem Steps Recorder (see how to use Problem Steps Recorder), if applicable
    ●  Please provide as detailed description as you can, or send us a combination of any of the previous choices. 

We warmly welcome any recommendations on how to fix the vulnerability, if applicable.

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