CVE-2020-7788
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-11 10:45
Modified
2024-09-16 23:41
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.
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