High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-12565
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2018-12565
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:05.985628270Z",
"provider": "osv",
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