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.
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
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'}


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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

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

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

Link: CVE-2026-63328

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-18T17:45:06Z