Information Exposure Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [,1.8.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
81.99% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-174248
  • published15 Apr 2019
  • disclosed13 Mar 2018
  • creditIvan Fratric of Google Project Zero

Introduced: 13 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-0891  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore to version 1.8.2 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 Information Exposure. An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the scripting engine does not properly handle objects in memory in Microsoft browsers. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.

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