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
3.86% (91st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-173908
- published 31 Mar 2019
- disclosed 14 Aug 2018
- credit Michael Holman, Microsoft Chakra Core Team
Introduced: 14 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-8385 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) because of the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers. The memory can be corrupted so an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.