Description

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.

Remediation

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/

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-1188 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Tags

Exploit Third Party Advisory Broken Link Patch Mailing List