{"id":"CVE-2020-7729","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-7729","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:27:34.011Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2020-09-03T09:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:25:20.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"report@snyk.io","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-1188"],"affected":["gruntjs/grunt","debian/debian linux","canonical/ubuntu linux"],"epss":{"score":0.02304,"percentile":0.8321,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.30%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/master/lib/grunt/file.js%23L249","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/e350cea1724eb3476464561a380fb6a64e61e4e7","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00008.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-607922","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4595-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/blob/master/lib/grunt/file.js%23L249","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/commit/e350cea1724eb3476464561a380fb6a64e61e4e7","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00008.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-607922","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRUNT-597546","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4595-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7729","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}