Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [,1.7.3)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
4.78% (93rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-173805
- published 1 Apr 2019
- disclosed 10 Oct 2017
- credit Microsoft ChakraCore Team
Introduced: 10 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-11796 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore
to version 1.7.3 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 scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge. The vulnerability could corrupt memory so an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user