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CVE-2016-7201GHSA-4F5G-J7WG-7W8J

The Chakra JavaScript scripting engine in Microsoft Edge allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (mem

Published
Last modified
published
Listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.2.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

The Chakra JavaScript engine used by Microsoft Edge is affected by this vulnerability. An attacker who gets a user to visit a specially crafted web page could run arbitrary code on the affected system or crash the browser through memory corruption.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

Read the original description

The Chakra JavaScript scripting engine in Microsoft Edge allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-7200, CVE-2016-7202, CVE-2016-7203, CVE-2016-7208, CVE-2016-7240, CVE-2016-7242, and CVE-2016-7243.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Added to CISA KEV

    CISA has evidence of exploitation in the wild

  3. CISA remediation deadline

    Due date for US federal agencies to patch

  4. Record last updated
  5. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • Microsoft.ChakraCoreNuGet

    fixed in 1.2.2

References 7

docs.microsoft.com

packetstormsecurity.com

GitHub · theori-io/chakra-2016-11

securityfocus.com

Exploit-DB

securitytracker.com