CVE-2024-37284 – Elastic Defend Windows Alt Encoding Crash Vulnerability (Heap Corruption)

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CVE-2024-37284 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Jan. 21, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-755
    Added Reference https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-13-3-security-update-esa-2024-24/373441
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