Medium severity · published Jan 21, 2025
CVE-2024-37284
Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash
5.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 5% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ED
Elastic Defend · Elastic
8.0.0 before 8.13.3 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37284
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-37284
discuss.elastic.co
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-13-3-security-update-esa-2024-24/373441
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