PT-2018-1138 · Microsoft · Chakracore+1

Published 2018-03-13 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2018-0874

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.6

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Edge (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in the ChakraCore JavaScript engine and Microsoft Edge browser, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code using specially crafted web page content. This could corrupt memory, enabling the attacker to execute code in the context of the current user. If the user has administrative rights, the attacker could gain control of the affected system, install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

BDU:2018-00566

CVE-2018-0874

GHSA-67F9-QMG7-FMCQ

Affected Products

Chakracore

Edge

References · 11

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-0874 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0874 · Security Note
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0874 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-67f9-qmg7-fmcq · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-00566 · Security Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore · Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/commit/7087c314a67631a0a3094bc2f741991ee10f5b5a · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210124144659/http://securityfocus.com/bid/103269 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/103269 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20201021051922/http://securitytracker.com/id/1040507 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1040507 · Note