CVE-2024-37284
Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.5 Medium
- Published
- Jan 21, 2025
- Updated
- Jan 21, 2025
- Reserved
- Jun 5, 2024
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | elastic |
Weaknesses
- CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Elastic DefendElastic |
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References
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