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CVE-2018-14572

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-14572 describes a critical vulnerability in pyconuk conference_scheduler_cli, where a crafted .pickle file can lead to remote code execution due to an insecure pickle.load call. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code, such as os.system calls, with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction (UI:R) to open the malicious file. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pyconuk:conference-scheduler-cli:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0246 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-cf3c-fffp-34qhhigh

conference-scheduler-cli Arbitrary Code Execution

Oct 29, 2018

References

github.com / PyconUK/ConferenceScheduler-cli/issues/19
ExploitThird Party Advisory
joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io / blog/2020/04/25/cve-2018-14572-conference-scheduler-cli