Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [1.2.0,1.5.2)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
12.17% (96th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-174390
- published 18 Apr 2019
- disclosed 13 Jun 2017
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 13 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-8522 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore to version 1.5.2 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). An invalid reuse of an index may lead a buffer overflow in TypeHandler
. This may allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary code in the context of an authenticated user.
Note: This CVE ID is different from CVE-2017-8517 and CVE-2017-8524.