CVE-2018-12564 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2018-12564?

CVE-2018-12564 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 Jun 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-12564?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linaro Lava.

How do I fix CVE-2018-12564?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2018-12564 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-12564 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12564, DLA-1404-1, GHSA-jhr6-gv2v-7888.