Versions of grunt-gh-pages prior to 0.10.0 are affected by a vulnerability which may cause unencrypted GitHub credentials to be written to a log file in certain circumstances.

In the grunt-gh-pages deployment scenario where authentication is performed by injecting a GitHub token directly into the auth portion of the URL, grunt-gh-pages will write the token to a log file, unencrypted.

Recommendation

Update to version 0.10.0 or later.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10526
• tschaub/grunt-gh-pages#41
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/85
• tschaub/grunt-gh-pages@590f697
• tschaub/grunt-gh-pages@2d277e3