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GHSA-2HCM-Q3F4-FJGW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-18 09:30 – Updated: 2025-08-07 18:21

Summary

OSV-SCALIBR's Container Image Unpacking Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via Path Traversal

Details

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

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  "published": "2025-06-18T09:30:31Z",
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CVE-2025-5981 (GCVE-0-2025-5981)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 08:28 – Updated: 2025-06-18 13:42

Title

Arbitrary File write in OSV-SCALIBR

Summary

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

Google CNA under the Google root

CNA scorecard B 77/100 over 40 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/google/osv-scalibr/releases/ta…
https://github.com/google/osv-scalibr/commit/2444…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Google	osv-scalibr	Affected: 0.1.3 , < 0.1.8 (semver)

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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