CVE-2025-5981 (GCVE-0-2025-5981)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 08:28 – Updated: 2025-06-18 13:42
VLAI
Title
Arbitrary File write in OSV-SCALIBR
Summary
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.
Severity
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-18 13:42 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google osv-scalibr Affected: 0.1.3 , < 0.1.8 (semver)
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Date Public
2025-04-24 22:00
Credits
Anthony Weems of Google's Cloud Vulnerability Research team Simon Scannell of Google's Cloud Vulnerability Research team Stefan Schiller of Google's Cloud Vulnerability Research team
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