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CVE-2020-28441Prototype Pollution
- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 31% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
This affects the package conf-cfg-ini before 1.2.2. If an attacker submits a malicious INI file to an application that parses it with decode, they will pollute the prototype on the application. This can be exploited further depending on the context.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 21 months later
· 21 months later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Affected products
conf-cfg-ini
- affected unspecified – < 1.2.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmconf-cfg-iniGHSA-m6mg-jvjf-w44x (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CONFCFGINI-1048973 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/loge5/conf-cfg-ini/commit/3a88a6c52c31eb6c0f033369eed40aa168a636ea (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-6373 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m6mg-jvjf-w44x (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-28441)Record last updated .