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GHSA-pcr8-75v3-w9pf

GitHub Security Advisory

Chakra Core vulnerable to privilege escalation due to type confusion

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH Has CVE

Advisory Details

ChakraCore and Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 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". Individual Export in module exports was not taking care of destructuring nodes, leading to type confusion. This was fixed by adding support for walking those nodes.

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-2017-11866, CVE-2017-11869, CVE-2017-11870, CVE-2017-11871, and CVE-2017-11873.

Affected Packages

NuGet Microsoft.ChakraCore
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 1.7.4)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-pcr8-75v3-w9pf
Published
May 17, 2022 12:19 AM
Last Modified
October 10, 2023 4:20 PM
CVSS Score
7.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
NuGet
Primary Package
Microsoft.ChakraCore
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: June 17, 2025 6:25 AM

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