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CVE-2024-37284

Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash

Published: Jan 21, 2025Updated: Jan 21, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-755
NVD MITRE
5.5CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 95.2%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LPR:NUI:RS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-755

Affected Products

Elastic DefendElastic NV
Mixed
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
Elastic DefendElasticDatabases
elastic nvcommercialUSEnterprise Softwareaka elastic
elasticcommercialUSDatabasesaka elasticsearch co., elastic.co

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-13-3-security-update-esa-2024-24/373441
discuss.elastic.co
https://vuldb.com/?id.292654
vuldb.com

Timeline

Published
Jan 21, 2025
Last Updated
Jan 21, 2025

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