Prototype Pollution in node-ini-parser package



Published: 2020-04-07
Risk Medium
Patch available NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2020-7617
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit Public exploit code for vulnerability #1 is available.
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		node-ini-parser
Web applications / Modules and components for CMS

Vendor rawiroaisen

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Prototype Pollution

EUVDB-ID: #VU26634

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7617

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in the "__proto__" payload. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request and add or modify properties of Object.prototype.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

node-ini-parser: 0.0.1 - 0.0.2

CPE2.3 External links

http://github.com/rawiroaisen/node-ini-parser/blob/master/index.js#L14
http://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-INIPARSER-564122


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?



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