Information Exposure Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [,1.6.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.82% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-5808453
  • published28 Jul 2023
  • disclosed17 May 2022
  • creditIvan Fratric

Introduced: 17 May 2022

CVE-2017-8659  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore to version 1.6.1 or higher.

Overview

Microsoft.ChakraCore is a core part of the Chakra Javascript engine that powers Microsoft Edge

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Windows 10 1703 allows an attacker to obtain information to further compromise the user's system due to the Chakra scripting engine not properly handling objects in memory.

Note:

Userrs are advised to update to v1.6.2 as v1.6.1 was removed from the package manager.

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