Critical severity · published Dec 11, 2020
CVE-2020-7788
Prototype Pollution
9.8
CVSS
3.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.7% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IN
ini ·
before 1.3.6 · source: vendor, NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7788
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7788
Patch
https://github.com/npm/ini/commit/56d2805e07ccd94e2ba0984ac9240ff02d44b6f1
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00032.html
Exploit
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-INI-1048974
