diff --git a/verify-repo-metadata.py b/verify-repo-metadata.py
index 4187f0de..f1c5d5c4 100755
--- a/verify-repo-metadata.py
+++ b/verify-repo-metadata.py
@@ -1,71 +1,71 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python3
 import os
 import sys
 import yaml
 import argparse
 import regex
 
 # Gather the command line arguments we need
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Verifies the metadata files')
 parser.add_argument('--metadata-path', help='Path to the metadata to check', required=True)
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
 # Make sure our configuration file exists
 if not os.path.exists( args.metadata_path ):
     print("Unable to locate specified metadata location: %s".format(args.metadata_path))
     sys.exit(1)
 
 # Regular expression used to validate project names
 # Taken from Gitlab itself (with slight adaptation to be Python compatible)
 projectRegex = regex.compile('^[\p{Alnum}\u00A9-\u1f9ff_][\p{Alnum}\p{Pd}\u00A9-\u1f9ff_\. ]*$', flags=regex.V1)
 
 # Start a list of used project identifiers
 projectIdentifiersInUse = []
 
 # Start going over the location in question...
 for currentPath, subdirectories, filesInFolder in os.walk( args.metadata_path, topdown=False, followlinks=False ):
     # Do we have a metadata.yaml file?
     if 'metadata.yaml' not in filesInFolder:
         # We're not interested then....
         continue
 
     # Now that we know we have something to work with....
     # Lets load the current metadata up
     metadataPath = os.path.join( currentPath, 'metadata.yaml' )
     metadataFile = open( metadataPath, 'r' )
-    metadata = yaml.load( metadataFile )
+    metadata = yaml.safe_load( metadataFile )
 
     # Trim the base path to the metadata off to make it a bit nicer to read
     currentLocation = currentPath[len(args.metadata_path):]
 
     # check sanity of the description and make sure that it is less then 250
     # (part of gitlab restriction)
     if metadata['description'] is not None and len(metadata['description']) > 250:
         print(currentLocation + ": Project description is longer than 250 characters")
 
     # check the description and ensure that it is not empty
     # currently warning, but still best to list it out
     if metadata['description'] is not None and len(metadata['description']) == 0:
         print(currentLocation + ": Project description is empty")
 
     # Check if name have supported characters only
     if projectRegex.match(metadata['name']) is None:
         print(currentLocation + ": Project name contains characters not allowed by Gitlab - " + metadata['name'])
 
     # Make sure that identifier is not empty
     identifier = metadata.get('identifier')
     if identifier is None:
         print(currentLocation + ": CRITICAL ERROR - Project identifier is not set")
         sys.exit(1)
 
     # Make sure the identifier is not in use already
     if identifier in projectIdentifiersInUse:
         print(currentLocation + ": CRITICAL ERROR - Project identifier is already in use - " + metadata['identifier'])
         sys.exit(1)
 
     # All checks done for this project
     # Add it to the list of identifiers in use
     projectIdentifiersInUse.append( identifier )
 
 # All done!
 sys.exit(0)