How severe is CVE-2018-8298?

CVE-2018-8298 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 74.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2018-8298: ChakraCore Scripting Engine Type Confusion

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

ChakraCore Scripting Engine Type Confusion Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-03

Remediation due

2022-03-17

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8298

Description

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the ChakraCore scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8242, CVE-2018-8283, CVE-2018-8287, CVE-2018-8288, CVE-2018-8291, CVE-2018-8296.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Microsoft	ChakraCore	ChakraCore

References

3 Links

Exploits & PoCs

45217

Vulnerability databases

104639

Other references

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8298

Record Details

Published

2018-07-11

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

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