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ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 6, 2023

Package

nuget Microsoft.ChakraCore (NuGet)

Affected versions

< 1.8.0

Patched versions

1.8.0

Description

Microsoft ChakraCore allows an attacker to bypass Control Flow Guard (CFG) in conjunction with another vulnerability to run arbitrary code on a target system, due to how the Chakra scripting engine handles accessing memory, aka "Scripting Engine Security Feature Bypass".

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 10, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jul 21, 2023
Last updated Oct 6, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2018-0818

GHSA ID

GHSA-fv8m-p45w-gf38

Source code

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