CVE-2020-7729 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/master/lib/grunt/file.js23L249 https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/e350cea1724eb3476464561a380fb6a64e61e4e7 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00008.html https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-607922 https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4595-1/

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.1