CVE-2023-42757

CVSS 4.2 MEDIUMEPSS 0.3%CWE-120

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 4.2EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

07 May 2024Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

https://github.com/SafeBreach-Labs/MagicDot https://www.blackhat.com/asia-24/briefings/schedule/#magicdot-a-hackers-magic-show-of-disappearing-dots-and-spaces-36561 https://www.safebreach.com/blog/magicdot-a-hackers-magic-show-of-disappearing-dots-and-spaces/