CVE-2024-37284: Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash
Medium · CVSS 5.5 (CVSS 3.1)EPSS 0.16%, 5th percentilePublished Updated Assigner: elastic
Description
Improper handling of alternate encoding occurs when Elastic Defend on Windows systems attempts to scan a file or process encoded as a multibyte character. This leads to an uncaught exception causing Elastic Defend to crash which in turn will prevent it from quarantining the file and/or killing the process.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H · CWE-755
Tracked companies
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Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
Elastic: Elastic Defend
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-13-3-security-update-esa-2024-24/373441 (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)