Privilege Escalation Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [1.2.0,1.7.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-174366
  • published18 Apr 2019
  • disclosed2 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Dec 2017

CVE-2018-11914  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore to version 1.7.5 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 Privilege Escalation. There is a bug in the GetPropertyBuiltIns function of JavascriptGeneratorFunction.cpp when getting the length property.

Note: This CVE ID is different from CVE-2017-11886, CVE-2017-11889, CVE-2017-11890, CVE-2017-11893, CVE-2017-11894, CVE-2017-11895, CVE-2017-11901, CVE-2017-11903, CVE-2017-11905, CVE-2017-11905, CVE-2017-11907, CVE-2017-11908, CVE-2017-11909, CVE-2017-11910, CVE-2017-11911, CVE-2017-11913, CVE-2017-11914, CVE-2017-11916, CVE-2017-11918, and CVE-2017-11930.

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