Unscored USN-3704-1 1 CVE

devscripts vulnerability

Published Jul 5, 2018 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that devscripts incorrectly handled certain YAML files.
An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 1

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS	devscripts	2.17.12ubuntu1.1

Vulnerabilities 1

Unscored —

CVE-2018-13043

scripts/grep-excuses.pl in Debian devscripts through 2.18.3 allows code execution through unsafe YAML loading because Y…

devscripts devscripts Debian Ubuntu

Jul 1, 2018

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-13043