Microsoft Edge and ChakraCore in Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, and Windows Server 2016 allows remote code execution,…

Description

Microsoft Edge and ChakraCore in Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, and Windows Server 2016 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-2018-0856, CVE-2018-0857, CVE-2018-0858, CVE-2018-0860, CVE-2018-0861, and CVE-2018-0866.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

17.7% · top 2.8% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

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

Weakness

• Critical
• CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft Edge, ChakraCore

  • affected Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, and Windows Server 2016.

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• NuGetMicrosoft.ChakraCoreGHSA-9pvj-pgg9-pvqq (opens in a new tab)

References (3)

• 102882 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1040372 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0859 (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-9pvj-pgg9-pvqq (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 16 Sept 2024, 18:38 UTC.