Advisories » MGASA-2021-0068

Updated nodejs-ini package fixes a security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Feb 2021
Modification date: 05 Feb 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-7788

Description

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://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2503
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7788

SRPMS

7/core

• nodejs-ini-1.3.8-1.mga7