GHSA-rm36-94g8-835r

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / GHSA-rm36-94g8-835r

    GHSA-rm36-94g8-835r

    Published: 11 May 2022Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026
    Aliases:
    CVE-2022-1537

    Summary: Race Condition in Grunt

    Details: file.copy operations in GruntJS are vulnerable to a TOCTOU race condition leading to arbitrary file write in GitHub repository gruntjs/grunt prior to 1.5.3. This vulnerability is capable of arbitrary file writes which can lead to local privilege escalation to the GruntJS user if a lower-privileged user has write access to both source and destination directories as the lower-privileged user can create a symlink to the GruntJS user's .bashrc file or replace /etc/shadow file if the GruntJS user is root.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1537, https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/58016ffac5ed9338b63ecc2a63710f5027362bae, https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt, https://huntr.dev/bounties/0179c3e5-bc02-4fc9-8491-a1a319b51b4d, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00006.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: grunt

    Purl: pkg:npm/grunt

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.5.3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    GHSA-rm36-94g8-835r | CVE-DB