Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Affecting autolinker package, versions <3.16.1


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

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

Introduced: 31 Mar 2022

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-290 Open this link in a new tab

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.