Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [,1.7.1)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
21.17% (97th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-173793
- published 24 Mar 2019
- disclosed 10 Aug 2017
- credit Microsoft ChakraCore Team
Introduced: 10 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-8658 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore to version 1.7.1 or higher.
Overview
Microsoft.ChakraCore is the core part of the Chakra Javascript engine that powers Microsoft Edge
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to the way that the ChakraCore scripting engine handles objects in memory. It could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.