VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2024-37284

Improper handling of alternate encoding occurs when Elastic Defend on Windows systems attempts to scan a file or process encoded as a multibyte character.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.16%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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 3.1: 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS: 0.16% probability · 5th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-755
Source: security@elastic.co

References

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

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.