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CVE-2018-12565

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% 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 use of yaml.load() instead of yaml.safe_load() when parsing user data, remote code execution can occur.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Linaro Lava: through 2018.4

References

• https://git.linaro.org/lava/lava.git/commit/?id=583666c84ea2f12797a3eb71392bcb05782f5b14
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4234
• https://git.linaro.org/lava/lava.git/commit/?id=583666c84ea2f12797a3eb71392bcb05782f5b14
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4234

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