Security advisory

{
  "id": "4ae45ca7070e49e5d7ac5c844ca2d618ddfcb9f36574c0a0a020f80d738b108c",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-14572",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-14572",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-14572",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-14572",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-14572",
        "GHSA-cf3c-fffp-34qh",
        "PYSEC-2018-64"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/pyconuk/conferencescheduler-cli",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "98dc383cc8e5a013eefa5fdec918f1c5600bc4c6"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pyconuk:conference-scheduler-cli:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.10.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v0.10.1",
            "v0.10.0",
            "v0.9.1",
            "v0.9.0",
            "v0.8.4",
            "v0.8.3",
            "v0.8.2",
            "v0.8.1",
            "v0.8.0",
            "v0.7.2",
            "v0.7.1",
            "v0.7.0",
            "v0.6.0",
            "v0.5.0",
            "v0.4.1",
            "v0.4.0",
            "v0.3.1",
            "v0.3.0",
            "v0.2.0",
            "v0.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-14572.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:20.317915370Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2020/04/25/cve-2018-14572-conference-scheduler-cli/",
        "https://github.com/PyconUK/ConferenceScheduler-cli/issues/19"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-14572",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381564,
  "published_at": "2018-08-28T19:29:16.177+00:00"
}