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Medium · 4.2 CVE-2023-42757 EUVD-2023-47189GHSA-4996-x4q8-5x37

Process Explorer before 17.04 allows attackers to make it functionally unavailable (a denial of service for analysis) by renaming an execut…

Published May 7, 2024 · Updated Mar 26, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

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.

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