CVE-2018-8500 — Vulnerability in Microsoft.ChakraCore — CVE Details

CRITICAL

ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability

Published May 13, 2022Updated February 16, 2024Source: osv

Summary

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the ChakraCore scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore.

Advisory Timeline

First published May 13, 2022 (1613 days ago).
Last revised February 16, 2024 — 644 days after initial publication.

Remediation

Upgrade to the fixed version using your package manager.

NuGet

Update Microsoft.ChakraCore to 1.11.2 or later

dotnet add package Microsoft.ChakraCore --version 1.11.2

After upgrading, run your dependency scanner again to confirm the vulnerability is resolved.

Affected Packages (1)

Affects 1 ecosystem: nuget (1).

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed In
Microsoft.ChakraCore	nuget	1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.11.0 (+34 more)	1.11.2

Vulnerability Classification

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) identifiers for this vulnerability type.

CWE-787
Out-of-bounds WriteMITRE

CVSS Score Breakdown

What the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 9.8 score means for each attack dimension.

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2018-8500?: ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability This vulnerability has been assigned a severity rating of CRITICAL (CVSS score: 9.8/10).
How do I check if my project is affected by CVE-2018-8500?: CVE-2018-8500 affects Microsoft.ChakraCore. Use GeekWala's free vulnerability scanner to check your dependencies against CVE-2018-8500 and 200,000+ other known vulnerabilities.

Severity & Exploitability

CVSS Score

9.8

Exploitation is straightforward and causes maximum impact. Patch immediately.

Also Known As

GHSA-fw42-4mq4-4qpq

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