CVE-2026-63328

Trivy: Path Traversal in Trivy Plugin Manager Allows Arbitrary File Write

Published Aug 18, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 6.8 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Trivy is a security scanner. Prior to 0.72.0, plugin manifest metadata is used by pkg/plugin/manager.go to construct paths under ~/.trivy/plugins without confining plugin names to that root, allowing an attacker who persuades a user to install or run a malicious plugin to write the manifest and plugin binary to arbitrary user-writable paths, while plugins from the official Trivy plugin index are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 0.72.0.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8rc5-4fr6-64pw Trivy Plugin Manager has Path Traversal that Allows Arbitrary File Write
History
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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First Time appeared Aquasecurity
Aquasecurity trivy
Vendors & Products Aquasecurity
Aquasecurity trivy
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Description Trivy is a security scanner. Prior to 0.72.0, plugin manifest metadata is used by pkg/plugin/manager.go to construct paths under ~/.trivy/plugins without confining plugin names to that root, allowing an attacker who persuades a user to install or run a malicious plugin to write the manifest and plugin binary to arbitrary user-writable paths, while plugins from the official Trivy plugin index are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 0.72.0.
Title Trivy: Path Traversal in Trivy Plugin Manager Allows Arbitrary File Write
Weaknesses CWE-22
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 18, 2026, 3:48 PM
Reserved
Jul 16, 2026, 2:14 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Aug 18, 2026, 4:18 PM
Modified
Oct 22, 2026, 10:10 PM