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CVE-2024-37284

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CVE-2024-37284

Published: Jan 21, 2025

Modified: Jan 21, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.5

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

Elastic

Elastic Defend

affected
8.0.0 - < 8.13.3

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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