CVE-2020-7788 (GCVE-0-2020-7788)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-11 10:45 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:41
VLAI
Title
Prototype Pollution
Summary
This affects the package ini before 1.3.6. If an attacker submits a malicious INI file to an application that parses it with ini.parse, they will pollute the prototype on the application. This can be exploited further depending on the context.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P
CWE
  • Prototype Pollution
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a ini Affected: unspecified , < 1.3.6 (custom)
Date Public
2020-12-11 00:00
Credits
Eugene Lim Government Technology Agency Cyber Security Group
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