CVE-2020-28472: Prototype Pollution

January 19, 2021 (updated January 28, 2021)

If an attacker submits a malicious INI file to an application that parses it with loadSharedConfigFiles, they will pollute the prototype on the application. This can be exploited further depending on the context.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28472

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