Bug 1875430 (CVE-2020-7729)

Summary:	CVE-2020-7729 nodejs-grunt: use of the unsafe load function from js-yaml package can lead to ACE
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	extras-orphan, nodejs-sig, tchollingsworth
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Bug Depends On:	1875432, 1875431
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-09-03 14:10:06 UTC

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.

Reference:
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/e350cea1724eb3476464561a380fb6a64e61e4e7

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-09-03 14:10:26 UTC

Created nodejs-grunt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1875432]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1875431]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-09-03 19:17:48 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.