Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash (ESA-2024-24)
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 Versions:
Versions up to 8.13.3
Solutions and Mitigations:
The issue is resolved in version 8.13.3.
Severity: CVSSv3.1: 5.5 Medium - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVE ID: CVE-2024-37284