ChakraCore allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user, due to how the ChakraCore scripting engine…

Description

ChakraCore allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user, due to how the ChakraCore scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Information Disclosure Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11792, CVE-2017-11793, CVE-2017-11796, CVE-2017-11798, CVE-2017-11799, CVE-2017-11800, CVE-2017-11801, CVE-2017-11802, CVE-2017-11804, CVE-2017-11805, CVE-2017-11806, CVE-2017-11807, CVE-2017-11808, CVE-2017-11809, CVE-2017-11810, CVE-2017-11811, CVE-2017-11812, and CVE-2017-11821.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.8% · top 6.9% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• Remote Code Execution
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Microsoft Corporation · ChakraCore

  • affected ChakraCore

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• NuGetMicrosoft.ChakraCoreGHSA-hrf4-ww4w-6rv6 (opens in a new tab)

References (2)

• 101145 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11797 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-hrf4-ww4w-6rv6 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 16 Sept 2024, 20:53 UTC.