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CVE-2018-14572

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

In conference-scheduler-cli, a pickle.load call on imported data allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pickle file, as demonstrated by Python code that contains an os.system call.

Affected products

• Pyconuk Conference-Scheduler-Cli: through 0.10.1

References

• https://github.com/PyconUK/ConferenceScheduler-cli/issues/19
• https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2020/04/25/cve-2018-14572-conference-scheduler-cli/
• https://github.com/PyconUK/ConferenceScheduler-cli/issues/19
• https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2020/04/25/cve-2018-14572-conference-scheduler-cli/

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