CVE-2017-11862 is a high-severity scripting engine memory corruption vulnerability affecting ChakraCore and Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 1709 and Windows Server, version 1709. An attacker can exploit this flaw to gain the same user rights as the current user. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH) due to its high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, despite requiring user interaction and having high attack complexity. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has received some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:chakracore:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:edge:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.4 Bluesky, 0.2 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.6 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.