Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-28441
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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