5.5

CVE-2024-37284: elastic elastic defend

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumDeferred
Published 21-01-2025Last modified 21-01-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-37284 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in elastic elastic defend. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.16%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 21-01-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 21-01-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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 metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

4%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.16% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.16%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Elastic1 product

1 vendor · 1 product

References

1 links