Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting grunt package, versions <1.3.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.85% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546
  • published 20 Aug 2020
  • disclosed 7 Aug 2020
  • credit Snyk Security Team

How to fix?

Upgrade grunt to version 1.3.0 or higher.

Overview

grunt is a JavaScript task runner.

Affected versions of this package 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 Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.1 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.1 high