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SCA: security update for grunt (GHSA-m5pj-vjjf-4m3h)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416750

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2020-7729)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m5pj-vjjf-4m3h

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416750

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7729

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7729