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CVE-2025-5981

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-5981 is a path traversal vulnerability affecting Google OSV-SCALIBR, allowing an attacker to achieve arbitrary file write as the OSV-SCALIBR user on the host system. This occurs when the unpack() function is used with untrusted container images via the --remote-image CLI flag. Rated 6.5 MEDIUM, the vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on integrity, but no impact on confidentiality or availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.1.3, < 0.1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:osv-scalibr:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

5.7MEDIUM

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
ACTIVE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
LOW
VS Availability
NONE
SS Confidentiality
HIGH
SS Integrity
LOW
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
11.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 11th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/google/osv-scalibrFixed in: 0.2.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-2hcm-q3f4-fjgwmedium

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

Jun 18, 2025

References

github.com / google/osv-scalibr/commit/2444419b1818c2d6917fc3394c947fb3276e9d59
Patch
github.com / google/osv-scalibr/releases/tag/v0.1.8
Release Notes