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node-ini — security advisory
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.
- Products
- node-ini
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.0.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-7788
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 11:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-7788
node-ini
Fixed versions: 2.0.0-1
node-ini
Fixed versions: 2.0.0-1
node-ini
Fixed versions: 2.0.0-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-09T09:47:37.149705737Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 111723,
"published_at": "2020-12-11T11:15:11.447+00:00"
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