CVE-2018-8291

EPSS 70.0%

Vexday Risk Score

45Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

CVSS —EPSS 70.0%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

11 Jul 2018Published on NVD

17 Aug 2018Public PoC

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8242, CVE-2018-8283, CVE-2018-8287, CVE-2018-8288, CVE-2018-8296, CVE-2018-8298.

Affected products

Microsoft · ChakraCore Microsoft · Internet Explorer 11 Microsoft · Microsoft Edge

public PoCs found — 2

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45215/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45215unverified

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References

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8291 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45215/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104637 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041256 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041258