CVE-2018-8500 ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability

What is CVE-2018-8500?

CVE-2018-8500 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Chakracore, published on 10 Oct 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the ChakraCore scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-8500?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including Microsoft.ChakraCore. It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Chakracore.

How do I fix CVE-2018-8500?

Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore to 1.11.2 or later.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-8500 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-8500 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-2017-11767 ChakraCore vulnerable to privilege escalation Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-8658 ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-1555 Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability High 8.8

All Microsoft Chakracore vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-fw42-4mq4-4qpq.