CVE-2017-11919 Information disclosure in ChakraCore, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge

What is CVE-2017-11919?

CVE-2017-11919 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Chakracore, published on 12 Dec 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

ChakraCore, and Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, Windows Server 2016, and Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, and Windows Server 2016 allows an attacker to obtain information to further compromise the user's system, due to how the scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Information Disclosure Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11887 and CVE-2017-11906.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-11919?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Chakracore, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer.

How do I fix CVE-2017-11919?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-11919 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-11919 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-11919 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Chakracore

• CVE-2018-8298 ChakraCore Scripting Engine Type Confusion Exploited High 7.5
• CVE-2020-0878 Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Exploited Medium 4.2
• CVE-2018-8500 ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-11767 ChakraCore vulnerable to privilege escalation Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-8658 ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability Critical 9.8

All Microsoft Chakracore vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-r7cg-pp63-f4xg.