CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.2. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
Public Exploit Signal
A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.
GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2023-42757
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.2
EPSS
0.27%
Original NVD 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.