CVE-2020-7791

Vulnerability in i18n (CVE-2020-7791)

Summary

Vulnerability in i18n (CVE-2020-7791). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 2.1.15 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

This affects the package i18n before version 2.1.15. Vulnerability arises out of insufficient handling of erroneous language tags in src/i18n/Concrete/TextLocalizer.cs and src/i18n/LocalizedApplication.cs.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-7791 has been found in i18n.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade i18n to 2.1.15 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "i18n CVE-2020-7791" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2020-7791 (i18n) — CWE-20
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 2.1.15 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (CWE-20) exists in i18n.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of i18n.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 2.1.15.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'i18n' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'i18n' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で i18n を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade i18n to 2.1.15
```
ステージング環境で 2.1.15 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

NuGet i18n

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.15"}]}]

References

Metadata

CVE: CVE-2020-7791
GHSA: GHSA-hfvc-g252-rp4g
Published: 2020-12-14
First seen on SecPulse: 5 years ago
First-seen source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

CWE

CWE-20 CWE-400

Detection sources

OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) 3 months ago