chakra-core/chakracore · Security
ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vx5c-598g-qpg6
- CVE ID
- CVE-2016-7208
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
The Chakra JavaScript scripting engine in Microsoft Edge allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-7200, CVE-2016-7201, CVE-2016-7202, CVE-2016-7203, CVE-2016-7240, CVE-2016-7242, and CVE-2016-7243.
CWEs
- CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7208 ↗
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-129 ↗
- https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/pull/1982 ↗
- https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/commit/c2787ef8fdb7401922e9ec6540e4e5895d11c631 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210123185150/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94044 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20211126224744/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037245 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vx5c-598g-qpg6 ↗