Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [,1.10.1)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
6.32% (94th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-173901
- published 1 Apr 2019
- disclosed 10 Jul 2018
- credit Pavel Avgustinov and Nick Rolfe of Semmle and LGTM.com
Introduced: 10 Jul 2018
CVE-2018-8294 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore
to version 1.10.1 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 Chakra scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge. This vulnerability may cause memory corruption so an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.