CVE-2024-37284CWE-755

Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash

Medium · published January 21, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00157 · 4.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-755 · Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Published
2025-01-21T10:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 JAN 10:56Z
    Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash
    cvelistv5