CVE-2026-54448 | Trivy is a security scanner. Prior to 0.71.0, when Trivy sca… | CVSS 6.9 MEDIUM

Description

Trivy is a security scanner. Prior to 0.71.0, when Trivy scans a Helm chart archive (.tgz), its custom tar unpacker reads each entry with io.ReadAll(tr) and no size limit. An attacker who can place a malicious .tgz file in the scanned path can craft a small compressed archive that decompresses to gigabytes, causing the Trivy process to be killed by the OS OOM killer. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.71.0.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2026-54448
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 2026-06-15 15:30 UTC
Published: 2026-06-25 16:27 UTC
Last updated: 2026-06-25 16:27 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-770
CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttlin…
Vendor / Product: aquasecurity / trivy
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

6.9 MEDIUM CVSS 4.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
aquasecurity	trivy	—	< 0.71.0

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-770	cna	CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-789	cna	CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
6.9	MEDIUM	4.0	cna	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References (2)

https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/security/advisories/GHSA-q3fv-x8vg-qqm4 https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/security/advisories/GHSA-q3fv-x8vg-qqm4
https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/pull/10718 https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/pull/10718