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CVE-2020-28462

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-28462 is a critical prototype pollution vulnerability affecting all versions of the ion-parser package. An attacker can exploit this by submitting a malicious INI file, leading to prototype pollution within the parsing application, which can have severe consequences including full compromise (CVSS 9.8). While the vulnerability is critical and easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ion-parser_project:ion-parser:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.3HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0087 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-7vrv-5m2h-rjw9critical

ion-parser Prototype Pollution when malicious INI file submitted to application that parses with `parse`

Jul 26, 2022

References

security.snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-IONPARSER-1048971
ExploitThird Party Advisory