Access Control Bypass Affecting twitter-fetcher package, versions <18.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-TWITTERFETCHER-3185142
  • published 29 Dec 2022
  • disclosed 29 Dec 2022
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade twitter-fetcher to version 18.0.0 or higher.

Overview

twitter-fetcher is a Fetch your twitter posts without using the new Twitter 1.1 API. Pure JavaScript!

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass due to missing the rel=noopener attribute, via the js/twitterFetcher.js file of the Link Target Handler component.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

6.1 medium