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CVE-2024-37284: Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-755
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.
Affected products
- Elastic Defend: from 8.0.0 before 8.13.3 — fixed in 8.13.3
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Elastic Defend 8.13.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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