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CVE-2020-7729

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Description

The package grunt before 1.3.0 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution due to the default usage of the function load() instead of its secure replacement safeLoad() of the package js-yaml inside grunt.file.readYAML.

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https://usn.ubuntu.com/4595-1/

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-607922

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00008.html

https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/e350cea1724eb3476464561a380fb6a64e61e4e7

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546

https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/master/lib/grunt/file.js%23L249

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-09-03

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04891

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