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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2026-54448)

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:21249-1 advisory.

    This update for trivy fixes the following issues

    Update to version 0.72.0.

    - CVE-2026-54448: tar unpacker reads scanned Helm chart archives (.tgz) with `io.ReadAll(tr)` and defines     no size       limit, which can lead to a DoS (bsc#1269271).
    - CVE-2026-55092: `org.opencontainers.image.title` annotation from OCI artifact manifest is used as a     destination       filename without validation and can lead to arbitrary file writes (bsc#1269269).

    Other updates and bugfixes:

    - Version 0.72.0:
      * feat(bottlerocket): add vulnerability matching for Bottlerocket OS (#10893)
      * fix(misconf): support github_repository_vulnerability_alerts resource (#10680)
      * feat(java): detect JAR licenses from packaged LICENSE files (#10856)
      * fix(nodejs): parse project dependencies from multi-document pnpm-lock.yaml (#10861)
      * fix(server): propagate package repository class in client/server mode (#10874)
      * chore(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2 (#10888)
      * fix(vuln): fall back to UNKNOWN severity when vulnerability details are missing (#10795)
      * feat(java): detect JAR licenses from the embedded pom.xml (#10851)
      * chore(deps): Upgrade github.com/cenkalti/backoff to v6 (#10863)
      * ci(helm): bump Trivy version to 0.71.2 for Trivy Helm Chart 0.23.2 (#10873)
      * chore(deps): bump alpine to 3.24.1 (#10868)
      * docs: fix article typo in plugin developer guide (#10860)
      * feat(misconf): Adds CloudFront standard logging v2 support to AVD-AWS-0010 (#10848)
      * docs: fix typos (#10857)
      * fix(terraform): avoid data race on global getter.Getters in remote module resolver (#10843)
      * feat(secret): support new stateless format for GitHub App installation tokens (#10826)
      * fix: correct format verbs in diagnostic messages (#10805)
      * ci(helm): bump Trivy version to 0.71.1 for Trivy Helm Chart 0.23.1 (#10845)
      * refactor: use ParseErrorsAllowlist instead of ParseErrorsWhitelist (#10830)
      * docs: fix repository scan heading typo (#10828)
      * fix: forward ospkg detector options through ospkg.NewScanner (#10811)
      * chore(deps): bump github.com/bufbuild/buf to v1.70.0 (#10801)
      * fix(vex): load VEX documents from within the repository directory (#10820)
      * ci!: migrate docker config to dockers_v2 (#10783)
      * feat(dotnet): detect bundled runtime in self-contained deployments (#10786)
      * feat(secret): add OpenAI secret detection rules (#10798)
      * ci: expect GitHub App bot as backport PR author (#10813)
      * fix: surface the original analysis error instead of context cancellation (#10793)
      * chore(deps): bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 11 updates (#10803)
      * chore(deps): bump the common group with 4 updates (#10797)
      * chore(deps): bump the aws group with 4 updates (#10796)
      * fix: use random suffix for process temp directory instead of PID (#10431)
      * docs: update signature verification for deb and rpm packages (#10784)
      * fix(image): lookup origin layer for custom resources in merged layers (#10788)
      * ci: bump GoReleaser to v2.16.0 (#10774)
      * docs: fix broken nixpkgs reference link in installation guide (#10776)
      * fix(image): deterministic OS package deduplication for images with embedded SBOMs (#10777)
      * fix(spdx): guard against nil root component in SPDX marshaler (#10771)
      * ci(helm): bump Trivy version to 0.71.0 for Trivy Helm Chart 0.23.0 (#10768)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
444710	SCA: security update for github.com/aquasecurity/trivy (GHSA-q3fv-x8vg-qqm4)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
444710	SCA: security update for github.com/aquasecurity/trivy (GHSA-q3fv-x8vg-qqm4)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
326034	openSUSE 16 Security Update : trivy (openSUSE-SU-2026:21249-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high

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