PT-2018-18499 · Microsoft · Chakracore+1

Lokihardt · Published 2018-06-12 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2018-8229

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) ChakraCore (affected versions not specified)

Description A remote code execution issue exists due to the way the Chakra scripting engine handles objects in memory. This could allow an attacker to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the user has administrative rights, the attacker could take control of the system, install programs, view, change or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights.

Recommendations For Microsoft Edge, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue. For ChakraCore, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Type Confusion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-843

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-8229

GHSA-JV5X-P843-G4QR

Affected Products

Chakracore

Edge

References · 12

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/45013 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8229 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8229 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jv5x-p843-g4qr · Vendor Advisory
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8229 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-8229 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore · Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/commit/9b270c55bfea2fbefc9482d3414c4b4b395cad10 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1041097 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210124174715/http://securityfocus.com/bid/104369 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210927135934/http://securitytracker.com/id/1041097 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/104369 · Note