CVE-2018-12564

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

An issue was discovered in Linaro LAVA before 2018.5.post1. Because of support for URLs in the submit page, a user can forge an HTTP request that will force lava-server-gunicorn to return any file on the server that is readable by lavaserver and valid yaml.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
Linaro Lava: before 2018.5.post1 — fixed in 2018.5.post1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linaro Lava 2018.5.post1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://git.linaro.org/lava/lava.git/commit/?id=95a9a77b144ced24d7425d6544ab03ca7f6c75d3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00011.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4234
https://git.linaro.org/lava/lava.git/commit/?id=95a9a77b144ced24d7425d6544ab03ca7f6c75d3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00011.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4234

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