TI-2024-24799 Aliases CVE-2024-37284 GHSA-23cq-gcvc-5552

Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leads to Crash

LOW 24CWE-755Published 2025-01-21 · Updated 2025-01-21

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00158 4th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed Elastic Defend (Elastic): 8.13.3

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Elastic	Elastic Defend	8.0.0 to before 8.13.3	8.13.3	Patch available	CNA

Elastic Defend VendorElastic Affected 8.0.0 to before 8.13.3 Fixed in 8.13.3 Patch available CNA

Remediation

Fix · CNA Elastic Defend (Elastic) Fixed in 8.13.3

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-37284
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-23cq-gcvc-5552

References

Other 1

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-13-3-security-update-esa-2024-24/373441

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Sources

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