Aquasecurity Trivy Embedded Malicious Code
What to do
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
CISA deadline 2026-04-09 · passed 5 months ago · applies to US federal civilian agencies; used elsewhere as a reference SLA
What happened
Aquasecurity Trivy contains an embedded malicious code vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain access to everything in the CI/CD environment, including all tokens, SSH keys, cloud credentials, database passwords, and any sensitive configuration in memory.
Who is affected
Aquasecurity Trivy. Affected version ranges are listed in the vendor advisory and the NVD entry linked under Sources.
Weakness class: CWE-506.
Timeline
- Added to CISA KEVExploitation in the wild confirmed by CISA
- CISA remediation deadlinepassed 5 months ago
Sources
- NVD entry for CVE-2026-33634 nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33634
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
- github.com github.com/advisories/GHSA-69fq-xp46-6x23
- nvd.nist.gov nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33634