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lava — 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
- lava
- Affected versions
- 2018.5-1, 2018.5-2, 2018.5-3, 2018.5-3~bpo9+1
- Fixed versions
- 2018.5.post1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-12565
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:35 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:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12565
lava
Fixed versions: 2018.5.post1-1
lava
Fixed versions: 2018.5.post1-1
Complete source record
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