USN-4595-1: Grunt vulnerability

Publication date

20 October 2020

Overview

Grunt could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted input.

Releases

18.04 LTS

Packages

It was discovered that Grunt did not properly load yaml files. An attacker
could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-7729)

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
18.04 bionic	grunt – 1.0.1-8ubuntu0.1

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