Medium severity4.2NVD Advisory· Published May 7, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-42757
CVE-2023-42757
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.
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Affected products
2- Range: <17.04
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
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