CVE-2023-42757

Process Explorer before 17.04 allows attackers to make it functionally unavailable (a denial of service for analysis) by renaming an executable file to a new…

Medium · published May 7, 2024

CVSS v3.1
4.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Process Explorer before 17.04 allows attackers to make it functionally unavailable (a denial of service for analysis) by renaming an executable file to a new extensionless 255-character name and launching it with NtCreateUserProcess. This can occur through an issue in wcscat_s error handling.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.2 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00271 · 18.3th percentile
Published
2024-05-07T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 MAY 00:00Z
    Process Explorer before 17.04 allows attackers to make it functionally unavailable (a denial of service for analysis) by renaming an executable file to a new…
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