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CVE-2020-17048
Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Medium4.2EPSS 1.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoftCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 23% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.2.
Weakness
- Remote Code Execution
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected < publication
Microsoft · Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based)
- affected 1.0..0 – < publication
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- NuGetMicrosoft.ChakraCoreGHSA-vpc2-7xmf-ppmf (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-17048 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-vpc2-7xmf-ppmf (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-17048)Record last updated .