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CVE-2022-0436

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-0436 is a Path Traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) affecting gruntjs/grunt versions prior to 1.5.2. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), it allows a local attacker with low privileges to achieve high confidentiality impact by traversing directories. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gruntjs:grunt:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.1HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0057 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: gruntFixed in: 1.5.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-j383-35pm-c5h4medium

Path Traversal in Grunt

Apr 13, 2022

References

github.com / gruntjs/grunt/commit/aad3d4521c3098fb255fb2db8f2e1d691a033665
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/f55315e9-9f6d-4dbb-8c40-bae50c1ae92b
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00008.html