CVE-2025-5981

Arbitrary File write in OSV-SCALIBR

State: Published
Severity: 5.7 Medium
Published: Jun 18, 2025
Updated: Jun 18, 2025
Reserved: Jun 10, 2025

Description

Arbitrary file write as the OSV-SCALIBR user on the host system via a path traversal vulnerability when using OSV-SCALIBR's unpack() function for container images. Particularly, when using the CLI flag --remote-image on untrusted container images.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.7 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N	Google

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
osv-scalibrGoogle	0.1.3 to before 0.1.8Affected

References

https://github.com/google/osv-scalibr/releases/tag/v0.1.8
https://github.com/google/osv-scalibr/commit/2444419b1818c2d6917fc3394c947fb3276e9d59

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.