Bug 2083902 (CVE-2022-1537)

Summary: CVE-2022-1537 gruntjs: race condition leading to arbitrary file write
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Anten Skrabec <askrabec>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: agerstmayr, asoldano, bbaranow, bmaxwell, brian.stansberry, cdewolf, chazlett, darran.lofthouse, dkreling, dosoudil, extras-orphan, fjuma, grafana-maint, iweiss, jkurik, jochrist, jwendell, jwon, kde-sig, lemenkov, lgao, me, mosmerov, msochure, msvehla, nathans, nwallace, pjindal, pmackay, rcernich, rstancel, rsvoboda, smaestri, tom.jenkinson, twalsh
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A flaw was found in the GruntJS package during file.copy operations. This vulnerability is capable of arbitrary file writes, that can lead to local privilege escalation to the GruntJS user if a lower-privileged user has write access to both source and destination directories. This flaw allows a lower-privileged user to create a symlink to the GruntJS user's .bashrc file or replace /etc/shadow file if the GruntJS user is root.
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Description Anten Skrabec 2022-05-11 01:07:59 UTC 
file.copy operations in GruntJS are vulnerable to a TOCTOU race condition leading to arbitrary file write in GitHub repository gruntjs/grunt prior to 1.5.3. This vulnerability is capable of arbitrary file writes which can lead to local privilege escalation to the GruntJS user if a lower-privileged user has write access to both source and destination directories as the lower-privileged user can create a symlink to the GruntJS user's .bashrc file or replace /etc/shadow file if the GruntJS user is root.

https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/58016ffac5ed9338b63ecc2a63710f5027362bae