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CVE-2023-29487

Heimdal Thor - Threat To Process Correlation

Heimdal CVSS 9.1 Updated March 18, 2026

Executive Risk Summary

"A potential denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in Heimdal Thor agent versions 3.4.2 and before on Windows and 2.6.9 and before on macOS, however Heimdal asserts this is not a valid vulnerability. The issue is related to the Threat To Process Correlation threat prevention module, which may cause a DoS via the lack of process identification in DNS logs."

Operational Audit Arsenal

Target Type Executable
Target Asset HeimdalThor.exe
Standard Path %ProgramFiles%\Heimdal\Thor
PowerShell
# 🛠️ Senior Engineer Universal Audit
# Target: HeimdalThor.exe (Executable)
$Targets = 'HeimdalThor.exe'
$SearchPaths = @("$env:windir\System32", "$env:ProgramFiles", "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}")

Get-ChildItem -Path $SearchPaths -Include $Targets -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | 
Select-Object FullName, @{Name="Version";Expression={$_.VersionInfo.ProductVersion}}

Patch Impact Forecast

Reboot Required Unlikely

Low

Internal Work Notes

Investigate Heimdal Thor agent version and Threat To Process Correlation module configuration to determine potential impact of alleged DoS vulnerability.

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