Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting text_helpers package, versions <1.1.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-TEXTHELPERS-3180039
  • published 22 Dec 2022
  • disclosed 22 Dec 2022
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade text_helpers to version 1.1.0 or higher.

Overview

text_helpers is an easily fetch text and static content from your locales

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Privilege Assignment via the link function of lib/text_helpers/translation.rb. The manipulation of the link argument leads to using web links to untrusted targets with window.opener access.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

6.1 medium