HIGH7.5

GHSA-399v-jg88-3gx6

ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability

Quick fix

GHSA-399v-jg88-3gx6 — Microsoft.ChakraCore: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

dotnet add package Microsoft.ChakraCore --version 1.8.1

Details

Microsoft Edge and ChakraCore in Microsoft Windows 10 1703 and 1709 allows remote code execution, due to how the scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-0834, CVE-2018-0835, CVE-2018-0836, CVE-2018-0837, CVE-2018-0838, CVE-2018-0840, CVE-2018-0857, CVE-2018-0858, CVE-2018-0859, CVE-2018-0860, CVE-2018-0861, and CVE-2018-0866.

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Affected packages

NuGet/Microsoft.ChakraCore

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.8.1

Fixdotnet add package Microsoft.ChakraCore --version 1.8.1

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0856[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/commit/385af842bce4f94ddef98553a81f8ea99c7e2dcf[WEB]
https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore[PACKAGE]
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0856[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20210125205300/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102880[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20211208072939/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040372[WEB]