CVE-2020-7788

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 Metrics

• v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P
• v3.1•CRITICAL•Score: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
• v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
• v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.29%• Percentile: 53%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-1321•Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')

  The product receives input from an upstream component that specifies attributes that are to be initialized or updated in an object, but it does not properly control modifications of attributes of the object prototype.

Affected Systems

• debian•debian_linux

  9.0

• ini_project•ini

  < 1.3.6

• Npm•ini

  < 1.3.6

References (6)

• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-INI-1048974
• https://github.com/npm/ini/commit/56d2805e07ccd94e2ba0984ac9240ff02d44b6f1
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00032.html
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7788
• https://github.com/npm/ini
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1589