CVE-2023-42757

2024-05-0700:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

process explorer

denial of service

renaming file

ntcreateuserprocess

wcscat_s error handling

AI Score

6.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

JSON

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.