CVE-2024-37284: Elastic Defend

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Elastic Elastic Defend: from 8.0.0, before 8.13.3 (fixed in 8.13.3)

Published 2025-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.