CVE-2020-7729

Publication date 3 September 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
grunt	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.0.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.0.1-8ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
grunt	Upstream: e350cea

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.1 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H