Bug 1875430 (CVE-2020-7729) - CVE-2020-7729 nodejs-grunt: use of the unsafe load function from js-yaml package can lead to ACE
Summary: CVE-2020-7729 nodejs-grunt: use of the unsafe load function from js-yaml pack...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2020-7729
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1875431 1875432
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-09-03 14:10 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2020-09-03 19:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-09-03 19:17:48 UTC
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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.
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