CVE-2020-7788

A flaw was found in nodejs-ini. 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.

Node.JS packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Software Collections included the vulnerable dependency packaged in "nodejs-npm" component. Processing malicious files using npm could potentially trigger this vulnerability. The "ini" package bundled with npm was not in the library path where it could be included directly in other programs.

The nodejs-nodemon packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Software Collections are affected by this vulnerability as they bundle the nodejs-ini library. Usage of that library is governed by nodemon itself, so applications started by nodemon are not impacted. Further, nodemon is a developer tool not intended to be used in production.

The ini package is included in Red Hat Quay by protractor and webpack-cli, both of which are dev dependencies.

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