What is CVE-2018-12565?

CVE-2018-12565 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linaro Lava, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-06-19.

How severe is CVE-2018-12565?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Linaro Lava

CVE-2018-12565

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.

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

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.025 (84.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 84.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Linaro Lava
Debian Linux — versions 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

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-2018-12565?: CVE-2018-12565 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linaro Lava, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-06-19.
How severe is CVE-2018-12565?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.