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High 7.3Published Dec 11, 2020
CVE-2020-7788Prototype Pollution
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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.
- CVSS
- 7.3 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P
- Weakness (CWE)
- Not given
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- snyk
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
ini_project ini ini_project:ini | before 1.3.6 | NVD |
debian debian_linux debian:debian_linux | 9.0 | NVD |
References
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-INI-1048974x-refsource-misc
- https://github.com/npm/ini/commit/56d2805e07ccd94e2ba0984ac9240ff02d44b6f1x-refsource-misc
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00032.htmlmailing-list, x-refsource-mlist
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