UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7729
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UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7729
Published: 3 Sept 2020Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
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Summary:
Details: 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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-7729, https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/e350cea1724eb3476464561a380fb6a64e61e4e7, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4595-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5847-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7729
Affected packages
Package
Name: grunt
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=bionic
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -1.0.1-8ubuntu0.1
Affected versions
1.0.1-5
1.0.1-6
1.0.1-7
1.0.1-8
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
