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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-28441

This affects the package conf-cfg-ini before 1.2.2. If an attacker submits a malicious INI file to an application that parses it with decode, they will pollute the prototype on the application. This can be exploited further depending on the context.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:11 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-28441

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Jul 2022, 14:15 UTC

This affects the package conf-cfg-ini before 1.2.2. If an attacker submits a malicious INI file to an application that parses it with decode, they will pollute the prototype on the application. This can be exploited further depending on the context.

osv:CVE-2020-28441
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-28441",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "This affects the package conf-cfg-ini before 1.2.2. If an attacker submits a malicious INI file to an application that parses it with decode, they will pollute the prototype on the application. This can be exploited further depending on the context.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-28441",
    "products": [],
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:04.810327573Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384185,
  "published_at": "2022-07-25T14:15:09.27+00:00"
}