Security advisory

{
  "id": "88b1941d67fa845cecb3c63cedc8248d5ce331f5a9459e79063ab07c99a01366",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-28461",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-28461",
    "summary": "This affects the package js-ini before 1.3.0. If an attacker submits a malicious INI file to an application that parses it with parse , they will pollute the prototype on the application. This can be exploited further depending on the context.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-28461",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-28461",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-28461",
        "GHSA-m939-vrfp-9v8p"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/sdju/js-ini",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "fa17efb7e3a7c9464508a254838d4c231784931e"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "fa17efb7e3a7c9464508a254838d4c231784931e"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-28461.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:04.589141994Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/Sdju/js-ini/commit/fa17efb7e3a7c9464508a254838d4c231784931e",
        "https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JSINI-1048970"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:js-ini_project:js-ini:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "js-ini_project:js-ini",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "fixed": "1.3.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "fixed": "1.3.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "DESCRIPTION"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-28461",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384181,
  "published_at": "2022-07-25T14:15:09.823+00:00"
}