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.

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction Active

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

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Vendor Product Default status Versions
aquasecurity trivy affected
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< 0.72.0 affected —

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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
Fixes

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References
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https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/commit/d4213d7735c74e57f06c02ccb39ebca67abc7959 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/releases/tag/v0.72.0 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/security/advisories/GHSA-8rc5-4fr6-64pw cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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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'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-18T15:48:40.395Z

Reserved: 2026-07-16T14:14:24.384Z

Link: CVE-2026-63328

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-18T16:18:12.387

Modified: 2026-08-18T16:18:12.387

Link: CVE-2026-63328

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Updated: 2026-08-18T16:45:04Z

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