Information Exposure Affecting microsoft.chakracore package, versions [,1.7.4)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.94% (83rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTCHAKRACORE-174201
- published 15 Apr 2019
- disclosed 14 Nov 2017
- credit Hui Gao of Palo Alto Networks
Introduced: 14 Nov 2017
CVE-2017-11791 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.ChakraCore to version 1.7.4 or higher.
Overview
Microsoft.ChakraCore is the core part of the Chakra Javascript engine that powers Microsoft Edge.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the scripting engine does not properly handle objects in memory in Microsoft browsers. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.