Bug 2127075 (CVE-2020-28461)

Summary:	CVE-2020-28461 nodejs-ini: nodejs prototype pollution
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sandipan Roy <saroy>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	extras-orphan, nodejs-sig, tchollingsworth, thrcka
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Description Sandipan Roy 2022-09-15 09:49:57 UTC

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.

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JSINI-1048970
https://github.com/Sdju/js-ini/commit/fa17efb7e3a7c9464508a254838d4c231784931e

Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2022-09-15 09:50:17 UTC

Created nodejs-ini tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2127076]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-11-27 10:18:10 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.