CVE-2017-8755
HIGHMicrosoft Edge - Remote Code Execution via Scripting Engine Memory Corruption
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2017-8755. PoCs published by Google Security Research.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This PoC exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Edge's Chakra JavaScript engine by triggering a stack exhaustion exception during the re-parsing of an asm.js module, leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The exploit leverages recursive function calls to exhaust the stack and force an exception, leaving the function body in an invalid state.
Description
Microsoft Edge in Microsoft Windows 10 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user, due to the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8649, CVE-2017-8649, CVE-2017-8660, CVE-2017-8729, CVE-2017-8738, CVE-2017-8740, CVE-2017-8741, CVE-2017-8748, CVE-2017-8752, CVE-2017-8753, CVE-2017-8756, and CVE-2017-11764.
Exploits (1)
This PoC exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Edge's Chakra JavaScript engine by triggering a stack exhaustion exception during the re-parsing of an asm.js module, leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The exploit leverages recursive function calls to exhaust the stack and force an exception, leaving the function body in an invalid state.
References (4)
Scores
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H