Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [,1.11.6)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.98% (84th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-173938
- published 1 Apr 2019
- disclosed 12 Feb 2019
- credit Hearmen of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab, MoonLiang of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab
Introduced: 12 Feb 2019
CVE-2019-0640 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore to version 1.11.6 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 memory could be corrupted in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.