CVE-2020-7788: Prototype Pollution

December 11, 2020 (updated July 21, 2021)

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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7788

Code Behaviors & Features

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