ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability

Also known as GHSA-8h76-7vc3-mj3v

Published 9 y ago 2017-10-13 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.5

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

8.8%

percentile 95%

Public exploits

none known

ChakraCore and Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Windows 10 1703 allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user, due to how the scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11793, CVE-2017-11796, CVE-2017-11798, CVE-2017-11799, CVE-2017-11800, CVE-2017-11801, CVE-2017-11802, CVE-2017-11804, CVE-2017-11805, CVE-2017-11806, CVE-2017-11807, CVE-2017-11808, CVE-2017-11809, CVE-2017-11810, CVE-2017-11811, CVE-2017-11812, and CVE-2017-11821.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

8.76% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	7.6	`AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`
GitHub	3.0	7.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
nuget	`Microsoft.ChakraCore`	<1.7.3	1.7.3

Affected products

Microsoft Corporation ChakraCore, Microsoft Edge

Classification

Weakness

CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

securitytracker.com /id/1039529 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
portal.msrc.microsoft.com /en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11792 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/101078 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11792 · advisory
github.com /chakra-core/ChakraCore/pull/3917 · web
github.com /chakra-core/ChakraCore/commit/4e319aa937eeb0c076411ac0fd644225753bcc72 · web
github.com /chakra-core/ChakraCore · package
web.archive.org /web/20210124105224/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101078 · web
web.archive.org /web/20210723180751/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039529 · web

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-11792
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-8h76-7vc3-mj3v
NVD: CVE-2017-11792

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Summary