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CVE-2020-28273
Prototype pollution vulnerability in 'set-in' versions 1.0.0 through 2.0.0 allows attacker to cause a denial of service and may lead to…
Critical9.8EPSS 4.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Mend
Description
Prototype pollution vulnerability in 'set-in' versions 1.0.0 through 2.0.0 allows attacker to cause a denial of service and may lead to remote code execution.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Mend
- 26 days later
· 26 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.0% · top 9.3% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- Prototype Pollution
Affected products
set-in
- affected 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 2.0.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (3)
- https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/ahdinosaur/set-in/commit/e431effa00195a6f06b111e09733cd1445a91a88 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-28273 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qr4p-c9wr-phr6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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