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.
History

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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.
Title Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash
Weaknesses CWE-755
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2025-01-21T16:32:03.006Z

Reserved: 2024-06-05T14:21:14.942Z

Link: CVE-2024-37284

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-01-21T16:31:58.898Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-01-21T11:15:09.633

Modified: 2025-01-21T11:15:09.633

Link: CVE-2024-37284

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