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CVE-2020-7788

Prototype Pollution

High7.3EPSS 3.7%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
snyk

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.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By snyk

  2. · 11 months later

    Published

  3. · 6 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2020-7788, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
snykCNA (assigner)3.1High7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Critical9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
3.7% · top 10% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.

Weakness

Affected products

  • ini

    • affected unspecified – < 1.3.6

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

References (3)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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