PT-2020-2216 · Microsoft · Edge

Published 2020-04-14 · Updated 2022-05-24 · CVE-2020-0969

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 corrupting memory. If the current user has administrative rights, an attacker could take 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:2020-02131

CVE-2020-0969

GHSA-JR84-P554-62PM

Affected Products

Edge

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-0969 · Security Note
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0969 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-0969 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0969 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jr84-p554-62pm · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-02131 · Security Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore · Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/pull/6420 · Note
• https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/commit/cd58e8e6799ab11b02a1cfc30bac9a2171dabd4d · Note