TI-2026-68581 Aliases CVE-2026-102413 GHSA-f8hp-h7qq-64mp

Uncaught exception in Elastic Endpoint causes denial of service

LOW 27CWE-248Published 2026-10-06 · Updated 2026-10-06

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-248.

Summary

Elastic Agent and Elastic Defend versions from 8.19.13 through 8.19.21, from 9.2.7 through 9.2.8, from 9.3.0 through 9.3.8, from 9.4.0 through 9.4.7 and from 9.5.0 through 9.5.4 are affected. An uncaught exception (CWE-248) occurs in Elastic Endpoint when it processes a specially crafted file name on Windows under Chinese, Japanese or Korean system locales. An attacker who can supply such a file name causes the Elastic Endpoint process to crash and restart repeatedly, which can degrade or disable real-time malware prevention and behavioral detection on the host for as long as the condition persists.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29

Description from the CNA

Uncaught Exception (CWE-248) in Elastic Endpoint can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted file name. When Elastic Defend's Elastic Endpoint component processes a file name under certain system locale configurations (including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean locales) on Windows, an unhandled exception can occur during file-path handling. This causes the Elastic Endpoint process to crash and restart repeatedly, which can degrade or disable Elastic Defend's real-time malware prevention and behavioral detection capabilities on the affected host for as long as the condition persists.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00131 2nd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

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 Agent and Elastic Defend	8.19.13 – 8.19.21; 9.2.7 – 9.2.8; 9.3.0 – 9.3.8; 9.4.0 – 9.4.7; 9.5.0 – 9.5.4	—	No fix listed	CNA

Elastic Agent and Elastic Defend VendorElastic Affected 8.19.13 – 8.19.21; 9.2.7 – 9.2.8; 9.3.0 – 9.3.8; 9.4.0 – 9.4.7; 9.5.0 – 9.5.4 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

The sources list no fixed version for Elastic Agent and Elastic Defend.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29

Timeline

2026-10-06 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-102413
2026-10-07 CISA SSVC decision points changed
2026-10-07 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
2026-10-07 Alias added: GHSA-f8hp-h7qq-64mp

References

Other 1

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-endpoint-8-19-22-9-4-8-and-9-5-5-security-update-esa-2026-194/390868

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Sources

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