PT-2020-1918 · Microsoft · Edge

Published 2020-03-10 · Updated 2022-05-24 · CVE-2020-0812

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 (HTML-based) (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 execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user by exploiting the vulnerability through a specially crafted website. If the current user has administrative rights, an 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:2020-01195

CVE-2020-0812

GHSA-G67X-MGRV-M3GV

Affected Products

Edge

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-0812 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-01195 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-0812 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0812 · Security Note
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0812 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-g67x-mgrv-m3gv · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore · Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/pull/6385 · Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/pull/6385/commits/bdd48f21a93bd9dc7dd5f783b58df8bef72583c4 · Note