CVE-2020-36624
ahorner text-helpers translation.rb reverse tabnabbing
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- VulDB
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.62% · top 50% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 1.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemstext_helpersGHSA-74hc-57m5-83ch (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://vuldb.com/?id.216520 (opens in a new tab)technical-descriptionvdb-entryx_transferred
- https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/pull/19 (opens in a new tab)relatedx_transferred
- https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/commit/184b60ded0e43c985788582aca2d1e746f9405a3 (opens in a new tab)mitigationpatchx_transferred
- https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/releases/tag/v1.1.0 (opens in a new tab)mitigationx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-74hc-57m5-83ch (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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