CVE-2020-7729 - Insecure Default Initialization of Resource

Severity

71%

Complexity

12%

Confidentiality

98%

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.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 4 years ago

2020-09-03 09:15:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2020-10-27 00:15:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 9.0

9.0

References

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[debian-lts-announce] 20200909 [SECURITY] [DLA 2368-1] grunt security update

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Broken Link

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Patch, Third Party Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20200909 [SECURITY] [DLA 2368-1] grunt security update

Third Party Advisory

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Third Party Advisory

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Exploit, Third Party Advisory

USN-4595-1

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