{"id":"CVE-2020-7788","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-7788","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:43:13.185Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2020-12-11T11:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-08T22:17:03.000Z","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":["ini project/ini","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.03655,"percentile":0.89539,"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 (3.65%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/npm/ini/commit/56d2805e07ccd94e2ba0984ac9240ff02d44b6f1","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00032.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-INI-1048974","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/npm/ini/commit/56d2805e07ccd94e2ba0984ac9240ff02d44b6f1","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00032.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-INI-1048974","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7788","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."}