VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2023-42757
CVSS score4.2 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.27%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-05-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Process Explorer before 17.04 allows attackers to make it functionally unavailable (a denial of service for analysis) by renaming an executable file to a new extensionless 255-character name and launching it with NtCreateUserProcess. This can occur through an issue in wcscat_s error handling.
Weakness classification
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-120