Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-7729 - Insecure Default Initialization of Resource vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 14 | |
| OS | 1 | |
| OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/master/lib/grunt/file.js%23L249
- https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/master/lib/grunt/file.js%23L249
- https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/e350cea1724eb3476464561a380fb6a64e61e4e7
- https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/e350cea1724eb3476464561a380fb6a64e61e4e7
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00008.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00008.html
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-607922
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-607922
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4595-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4595-1/