CVE-2022-42902

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-10-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

In Linaro Automated Validation Architecture (LAVA) before 2022.10, there is dynamic code execution in lava_server/lavatable.py. Due to improper input sanitization, an anonymous user can force the lava-server-gunicorn service to execute user-provided code on the server.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
Linaro Lava: before 2022.10 — fixed in 2022.10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linaro Lava 2022.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://git.lavasoftware.org/lava/lava/-/commit/e66b74cd6c175ff8826b8f3431740963be228b52?merge_request_iid=1834
https://git.lavasoftware.org/lava/lava/-/merge_requests/1834
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00019.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5260
https://git.lavasoftware.org/lava/lava/-/commit/e66b74cd6c175ff8826b8f3431740963be228b52?merge_request_iid=1834
https://git.lavasoftware.org/lava/lava/-/merge_requests/1834
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00019.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5260

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