PT-2018-1139 · Microsoft · Chakracore+1

Published 2018-03-13 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2018-0873

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 an 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:2018-00567

CVE-2018-0873

GHSA-WC52-2XWV-H7XR

Affected Products

Chakracore

Edge

References · 11

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-0873 · Security Note
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0873 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0873 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-00567 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-wc52-2xwv-h7xr · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore · Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/commit/024353a0019ddd845ac889deb8b4714df2122836 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/103268 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20201021051922/http://securitytracker.com/id/1040507 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210124144654/http://securityfocus.com/bid/103268 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1040507 · Note