Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [,1.11.7)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.68% (88th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-173800
- published 24 Mar 2019
- disclosed 12 Mar 2019
- credit MoonLiang of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab, Yuki Chen of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
Introduced: 12 Mar 2019
CVE-2019-0639 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore to version 1.11.7 or higher.
Overview
Microsoft.ChakraCore is a 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. The vulnerability can cause memory corruption so an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user.