Elastic Defend Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding Leading to Crash Vulnerability
Vulnerability
A vulnerability exists in Elastic Defend on Windows systems, where improper handling of multibyte character encoding can lead to an uncaught exception. This exception causes Elastic Defend to crash, preventing the application from quarantining files or terminating processes as needed. The issue affects versions of Elastic Defend prior to 8.13.3.
Impact
Exploitation of this vulnerability causes Elastic Defend to crash, disrupting its ability to perform file quarantining and process termination tasks.
Remediation
Users can upgrade to Elastic Defend version 8.13.3 to address this vulnerability.
Added: Jun 9, 2025, 7:46 PM
Updated: Jun 9, 2025, 7:46 PM
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