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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-7729): Grunt vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-7729): Grunt vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/03/2020
Created
10/22/2020
Added
10/21/2020
Modified
11/15/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-grunt

References

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