PT-2022-8895 · Unknown · Conf-Cfg-Ini

Eugene Lim · Published 2022-07-25 · Updated 2022-08-01 · CVE-2020-28441

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions conf-cfg-ini versions prior to 1.2.2

Description The issue arises when an attacker submits a malicious INI file to an application that parses it with decode, resulting in prototype pollution on the application. This can be exploited further depending on the context.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.2.2, update to version 1.2.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the parsing of INI files with decode to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Prototype Pollution

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1321

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-28441

GHSA-M6MG-JVJF-W44X

Affected Products

Conf-Cfg-Ini

References · 9

• 🔥 https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CONFCFGINI-1048973 · Exploit
• https://github.com/loge5/conf-cfg-ini/commit/3a88a6c52c31eb6c0f033369eed40aa168a636ea · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28441 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-m6mg-jvjf-w44x · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-28441 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/loge5/conf-cfg-ini/commit/ecd878f8f7398e765739e989c7fe7cc052308947 · Note
• https://github.com/loge5/conf-cfg-ini · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/33732 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/46908 · Telegram Post