Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [,1.11.1)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
2.77% (91st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-173909
- published 1 Apr 2019
- disclosed 11 Sep 2018
- credit Qixun Zhao of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
Introduced: 11 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-8391 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore
to version 1.11.1 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 ChakraCore scripting engine handles objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory so an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user and could gain the same user rights as the current user.