CVE-2025-5981 (GCVE-0-2025-5981)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-18 08:28
Modified
2025-06-18 13:42
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
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
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.
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Impacted products
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Google osv-scalibr Version: 0.1.3   ≤
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