CVE-2025-5981: Google Osv-Scalibr

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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)

Published 2025-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.