CVE-2024-37284

Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: January 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:38 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorElastic Defend

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

60%
8.0.0 ≤ v < 8.13.38.0.0
Affected range stops below 8.13.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

5.5MEDIUMelastic
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-755

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