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Chakra Core vulnerable to privilege escalation due to reading an invalid pointer

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 10, 2023

Package

nuget Microsoft.ChakraCore (NuGet)

Affected versions

< 1.7.4

Patched versions

1.7.4

Description

ChakraCore and Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 1703, 1709, and Windows Server, version 1709 allows an attacker to gain the same user rights as the current user, due to how the scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability". When trying to get inlineCaches for a ScriptFunctionWithInlineCache, if the function got redefered and was not reparsed, the function body (and inlineCache on function body) won’t be there, potentially leading to a privilege escalation.

This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11836, CVE-2017-11837, CVE-2017-11838, CVE-2017-11839, CVE-2017-11840, CVE-2017-11841, CVE-2017-11843, CVE-2017-11846, CVE-2017-11858, CVE-2017-11859, CVE-2017-11861, CVE-2017-11862, CVE-2017-11866, CVE-2017-11869, CVE-2017-11870, and CVE-2017-11873.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 15, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Jul 27, 2023
Last updated Oct 10, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.862%
(83rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-11871

GHSA ID

GHSA-43qp-hphf-5rjw

Source code

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