Mageia 7 MGASA-2021-0068 Moderate: Nodejs-Ini Malicious Input Exploit
mageia
February 5, 2021
It was discovered that there was an issue in nodejs-ini, where an application could be exploited by a malicious input file
Summary
It was discovered that there was an issue in nodejs-ini, where an application
could be exploited by a malicious input file. 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
(CVE-2020-7788).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27901
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00032.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7788
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/nodejs-ini-1.3.8-1.mga7
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Publication date: 05 Feb 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0068.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-7788
Topics Covered
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