{"id":"CVE-2020-28461","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-28461","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:24:02.182Z","title":"If an attacker submits a malicious INI file to an application that parses it with parse , they will pollute the prototype on the application.","description":"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.","published":"2022-07-25T14:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:10:30.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"report@snyk.io","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-1321"],"affected":["js-ini project/js-ini"],"epss":{"score":0.01222,"percentile":0.68522,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.22%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/Sdju/js-ini/commit/fa17efb7e3a7c9464508a254838d4c231784931e","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JSINI-1048970","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/Sdju/js-ini/commit/fa17efb7e3a7c9464508a254838d4c231784931e","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JSINI-1048970","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28461","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}