CVE-2023-42757

MediumCVSS 4.2/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 4.2/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-120

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: May 7, 2024
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Deferred

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