An issue was discovered in Linaro LAVA before 2018.5.post1.

published 2018-06-19 8y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-4525

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.4%; EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

distros 1 links 1

lava Debian 14, Debian 12 2018.5.post1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12565

git.linaro.org/lava/lava.git/commit/?id=583666c84ea2f12797a3eb71392bcb057… commit

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Exploit prediction

2.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

git.linaro.org /lava/lava.git/commit/?id=583666c84ea2f12797a3eb71392bcb05782f5b14
patch, third-party-advisory
debian.org /security/2018/dsa-4234
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-12565
NVD CVE-2018-12565

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