Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [,1.10.2)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
96.07% (100th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-173907
- published 24 Mar 2019
- disclosed 14 Aug 2018
- credit Lokihardt of Google Project Zero
Introduced: 14 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-8384 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore
to version 1.10.2 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 its 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. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user.