CVE 6.9 MEDIUM

Trivy: Helm chart tar bomb causes OOM via unbounded io.ReadAll in parser_CVE-2026-54448

6.9 / 10
MEDIUM
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

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-54448
Source GitHub_M
Published Jun 25, 2026 at 16:27

Affected Product

Vendor aquasecurity
Product trivy
Version < 0.71.0
Affected Versions aquasecurity trivy < 0.71.0

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