What is CVE-2018-12564?

CVE-2018-12564 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linaro Lava, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-06-19.

How severe is CVE-2018-12564?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Linaro Lava

CVE-2018-12564

An issue was discovered in Linaro LAVA before 2018.5.post1. Because of support for URLs in the submit page, a user can forge an HTTP request that will force lava-server-gunicorn to return any file on the server that is readable by lavaserver and valid yaml.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2018-06-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Linaro Lava
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00011.html (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4234 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
git.linaro.org/lava/lava.git/commit/ (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-12564?: CVE-2018-12564 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linaro Lava, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-06-19.
How severe is CVE-2018-12564?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.