CVE-2020-28461 (GCVE-0-2020-28461)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-25 14:06 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:39
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Prototype Pollution
Summary
This affects the package js-ini before 1.3.0. If an attacker submits a malicious INI file to an application that parses it with parse , they will pollute the prototype on the application. This can be exploited further depending on the context.
Severity
CWE
- Prototype Pollution
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JSINI-1048970 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/Sdju/js-ini/commit/fa17efb7e3a… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
Date Public
2022-07-25 00:00
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