Vulnerability · Published Dec 22, 2022 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2020-36624ahorner text-helpers translation.rb reverse tabnabbing

Medium 6.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in text-helpers from ahorner. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 50.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability was found in ahorner text-helpers up to 1.0.x. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file lib/text_helpers/translation.rb. The manipulation of the argument link leads to use of web link to untrusted target with window.opener access. The attack can be initiated remotely. Upgrading to version 1.1.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 184b60ded0e43c985788582aca2d1e746f9405a3. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216520.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
RubyGems	text_helpers	1.2.0	GHSA-74hc-57m5-83ch

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
ahorner	text-helpers	1.0

Weakness: CWE-1022 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

https://vuldb.com/?id.216520 technical-description, vdb-entry
https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/pull/19 related
https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/commit/184b60ded0e43c985788582aca2d1e746f9405a3 mitigation, patch
https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/releases/tag/v1.1.0 mitigation