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SCA: security update for Microsoft.ChakraCore (GHSA-p97q-j98q-f98w)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434306

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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, Internet Explorer 10. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8242,
 CVE-2018-8283, CVE-2018-8288, CVE-2018-8291, CVE-2018-8296, CVE-2018-8298. (CVE-2018-8287)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p97q-j98q-f98w

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434306

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8287

BID: 104634

cwe: CWE-787