CVE-2025-5981: Arbitrary File write in OSV-SCALIBR

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-06-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-427

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.

Affected products

Google OSV-SCALIBR: from 0.1.3 before 0.1.8 — fixed in 0.1.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google OSV-SCALIBR 0.1.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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