CVE-2020-7617

FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-7617 describes a Prototype Pollution vulnerability in ini-parser versions up to 0.0.2, where an attacker can manipulate Object.prototype properties. This critical vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 9.8, carries a high risk of complete compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) due to its network-based attack vector and low complexity. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:ini-parser_project:ini-parser::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Exploitability Score

1.8

Impact Score

2.5

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.86%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

54.9%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0086 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference

View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-96r7-mrqf-jhcccritical

Prototype Pollution in ini-parser

Jun 10, 2020

References

github.com / rawiroaisen/node-ini-parser/blob/master/index.js

PatchThird Party Advisory

snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-INIPARSER-564122

MitigationThird Party Advisory