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Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Affecting autolinker package, versions <3.16.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-AUTOLINKER-2438289
  • published 25 Jul 2022
  • disclosed 31 Mar 2022
  • credit dbrgn
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Introduced: 31 Mar 2022

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How to fix?

Upgrade autolinker to version 3.16.1 or higher.

Overview

autolinker is an Utility to Automatically Link URLs, Email Addresses, Phone Numbers, Twitter handles, and Hashtags in a given block of text/HTML.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Spoofing when a URL string contains a Unicode RTLO character, two separate links are generated.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High