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Red Hat: CVE-2020-7788: Prototype pollution via malicious INI file (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2020-7788: Prototype pollution via malicious INI file (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/11/2020
Created
02/18/2021
Added
02/17/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-docs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-full-i18n
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-libs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-nodemon
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-packaging
  • redhat-upgrade-npm

References

  • CVE-2020-7788
  • RHSA-2021:0548
  • RHSA-2021:0549
  • RHSA-2021:0551
  • RHSA-2021:5171
  • RHSA-2022:0246
  • RHSA-2022:0350
  • RHSA-2022:6595
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