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CVE-2020-7729Arbitrary Code Execution
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 2.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/RL:O |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 16% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
grunt
- affected unspecified – < 1.3.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References6
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-607922 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/master/lib/grunt/file.js%23L249 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/e350cea1724eb3476464561a380fb6a64e61e4e7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200909 [SECURITY] [DLA 2368-1] grunt security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-4595-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-1133 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m5pj-vjjf-4m3h (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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