chakra-core/chakracore · Security
ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-wgw2-wwq8-c7wf
- CVE ID
- CVE-2018-8298
- 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/E:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H
Description
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. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8242, CVE-2018-8283, CVE-2018-8287, CVE-2018-8288, CVE-2018-8291, CVE-2018-8296.
CWEs
- CWE-843 · Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8298 ↗
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8298 ↗
- https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/pull/5444 ↗
- https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/commit/cb9957e2763c36dbd12afa5c9261465159e16c86 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210124183835/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104639 ↗
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-8298 ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45217 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wgw2-wwq8-c7wf ↗