CVE-2024-37284

Jan. 21, 2025, 11:15 a.m.

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
Elastic Defend

Weaknesses

CWE-755
Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
The product does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-13-3-security-update-esa-2024-24/373441

Tags

CWE-755
bressers@elastic.co
2025-01-21
CVE-2024-37284

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10

CVSS Data

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
    • View Vector String

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

Date

  • Published: Jan. 21, 2025, 11:15 a.m.
  • Last Modified: Jan. 21, 2025, 11:15 a.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

bressers@elastic.co

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