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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-7788: Moderate: nodejs and nodejs-nodemon security and bug fix update (ALSA-2022-6595)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-7788: Moderate: nodejs and nodejs-nodemon security and bug fix update (ALSA-2022-6595)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/11/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
04/15/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-nodejs
  • alma-upgrade-nodejs-docs
  • alma-upgrade-nodejs-full-i18n
  • alma-upgrade-nodejs-libs
  • alma-upgrade-nodejs-nodemon
  • alma-upgrade-npm

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