Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [1.2.0,1.4.2)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
12.37% (96th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-174409
- published 18 Apr 2019
- disclosed 9 Mar 2017
- credit Unknown
How to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore to version 1.4.2 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). A remote attacker could be able to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user due to a flaw in capturing the name of a function expression in one of the param scope functions.