Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting grunt package, versions <1.3.0
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.85% (83rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546
- published 20 Aug 2020
- disclosed 7 Aug 2020
- credit Snyk Security Team
Introduced: 7 Aug 2020
CVE-2020-7729 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
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