Vulnerability · Published Nov 20, 2025 · Assigned by Google
CVE-2025-13425Denial of Service in OSV-SCALIBR
Low 1.9
In plain English
A low-severity null pointer dereference in OSV-SCALIBR from Google. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 1% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
A bug in the filesystem traversal fallback path causes fs/diriterate/diriterate.go:Next() to overindex an empty slice when ReadDir returns nil for an empty directory, resulting in a panic (index out of range) and an application crash (denial of service) in OSV-SCALIBR.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/google/osv-scalibr | 0.3.4 | GHSA-f786-75f3-74xj |
| Go | github.com/google/osv-scalibr | 0.3.4 | GO-2025-4149 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| OSV-SCALIBR | < 0.3.4 |
Weakness: CWE-476 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:P