Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting text_helpers package, versions <1.1.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-TEXTHELPERS-3180039
  • published22 Dec 2022
  • disclosed22 Dec 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Dec 2022

CVE-2020-36624  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-266  (opens in a new tab)

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

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