Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-7729 - Insecure Default Initialization of Resource vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH 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://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-607922
- https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/master/lib/grunt/file.js%23L249
- https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/e350cea1724eb3476464561a380fb6a64e61e4e7
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00008.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4595-1/