🛡️ CVE-2023-42757
🟡 CVSS 4.2 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-120 NVD
4.2
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-120
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-05-07
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-04-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown

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