Security Advisory

CVE-2023-42757

4.2
MEDIUM

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date May 7, 2024
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory