PT-2018-1547 · Microsoft · Chakracore+1

Yu Zhou · Published 2018-09-10 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2018-8459

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 related to errors in handling objects in memory by the ChakraCore JavaScript engine. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user, potentially gaining the same user rights as the current user. If the current user has administrative rights, the attacker could take control of the affected system, enabling them to 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:2018-01102

CVE-2018-8459

GHSA-PCGP-VFGQ-MF5J

Affected Products

Chakracore

Edge

References · 13

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8459 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-pcgp-vfgq-mf5j · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-8459 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8459 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-01102 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8459 · Security Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore · Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/commit/e035a2db081cd4f385732e3ac5665ef087954825 · Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/pull/5688 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1041623 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210517133345/http://securitytracker.com/id/1041623 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/105230 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210418104557/http://securityfocus.com/bid/105230 · Note