CVE-2020-7729

HIGH7.1EPSS 2.4%

Arbitrary Code Execution in grunt

Published: 5/6/2021Modified: 2/4/2026

Also known as:GHSA-m5pj-vjjf-4m3hCGA-q6pm-f4xr-2rv2DEBIAN-CVE-2020-7729

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.

Affected packages (3)

Debian/gruntfrom 0, < 1.3.0-1
Debian/gruntfrom 0, < 1.0.1-5+deb9u1
npm/gruntfrom 0, < 1.3.0

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (8)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7729
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-7729
WEBhttps://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/master/lib/grunt/file.js%23L249
WEBhttps://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/e350cea1724eb3476464561a380fb6a64e61e4e7
WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00008.html
WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-607922
WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546
WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4595-1